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see how I am going to do any big thing out of doors—  Pochades seem the only possibility - I have got a good many ideas from Mr Lazar about it and indeed about any kind of painting——  I dont want to do an indoor thing and dont see how I could ever do more than a head out-of-doors - in this changeable and mostly rainy weather—  We are consoled by knowing that it is raining every where—  
I have at last been in A. Harrison's studio and seen a good many of his studies - and got some ideas from him too—  Kate Kinsella invited us to tea one afternoon in her studio and I happened to be next A.H.  And he sailed in to art which I believe is very unusual with him  And we had a nice talk and apropos of painting from memory - he said 


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[[archival note:]] [1888]

Sunday July 29—
Concarneau—

Dear Uncle Will—

It is dismal in Concarneau today and I'm going home to Sarah and Beach Haven for as long a time as I can—  Rain and rain and rain - and we are shut into our little Ark and are awfully tired of each other - and I think I'm going to have a toothache - feel a queer sensation in a fine big Darby filled tooth in my upper jaw - and what a place this would be to have an ulcerated tooth—  I should have to go to a strange 

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Toothache sensations passed over—  
Books have come and the insides amused us—  
Thanks for my cuff buttons but I dont even wear collars!  
The monkey is a charmer and looks like the poodles of Paree— [[Paris]]
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Transcription Notes:
* Pochade - type of sketch