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Dear Parents - Your letter from Seattle received. There is some space between us - I am glad you appeciate the West. From the samples of Western manhood here that I meet each day I should say that it would never suit me. What a lot of roughs - I appreciate the greatness of the west but am disappointed by the coarseness of its representatives here. I had a fine dinner at Madames' (Leque). Daniels and I were entertained by the Irish wit of two pretty swell maids of Erin. But otherwise my Xmas was like a common day for I worked until dark. My model this week was an old man. I have finished his head and can truly say I never painted better. The old man is a great study. He has seen