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I had asked more. I being utterly without reputation here they would have "concluded not to." It only has the mornings work of a week on it and is simply a happy hit. I dont consider it a very fine performance artistically though the faces is very well drawn. But I found it impossible to get the deep tones in the hair with pastil on the paper I used I did not ask so little by any means for tender heartedness but because I thought it was common sense - and the Darwins have done so much for me, that I dont at all grudge doing them cheap. Mauds is not pay at all. I began it as a slight sketch but from my own stupidity I am having quite a tussle over it. She sits out under a beautiful tree in their garden mounted up on chairs 


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[[archival note:]] [1889]

Monday. July 8——
Ashton House,
Mrs Edward Clarke.

NEWNHAM GRANGE,
CAMBRIDGE.

Dear Aunt Eliza,

You are probably now with the Muirs at Kaatskill - and I hope they are friendly and cheerful, and the trees not too green nor the sky too blue. I send this to B.H. because I dont know your address and they can read the letter and then send it on to you. I'm sorry about your eyes and hope you will defend them well from glare. The next letter will tell me I hope how the family got to B.H. Dont know the name of the new house, but should think it ought to be more Thalassa than the other— I have not yet got the Bill of Lading for my box from Paris but as soon as it comes I will send it with the receipt given by the men who took the box— It will be a nuisance to whoever attends to it but if the good person is 

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this—  
I am going to write my next letter to Uncle Will[[?]] at 
The Ocean Bluff—  Hope he'll get it!  
Your L.
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