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he had two studies one from [[men?]] the other from nature, and would like to see if I could tell the difference - and would'nt I come in a look at them? which I did, it being only in the next room,— And had an awfully nice time - I hit it right with first two, but tripped up the second time, but I defy any one to have felt the difference—  He really asked my opinion about several things and was so enthusiastic and tremendously in earnest that I liked him very much—  He makes his studies in an incredibly short time, of particular effects, and delicate values and never tries to find the same effect twice even when it is one that appears to be ordinary—    The genius comes in in his being able to get so much into one of this swift