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[[right-hand side]] on the express man -- Mrs. Chamberlain left tonight for London. I took dinner last night with Mrs. Ward and Reggy-- I am working in the Academy each day and try to learn how to draw. I am not a poor draughtsman but am not the best in the schools. Where I work now they do terrible things. Bess could draw better. Some elderly men seem to know a lot, but have drifted backwards. It all comes from lack of real liking for their work-- I went to church Sunday with Miss Chamberlain. Notre Dame --- Not a good service. Just as soon as I finish Homer's [[left-hand panel]] painting I shall pack up canvases &c for home Shall I pack everything all sell my furniture? I should like to leave things in the studio and return with Bess next year take a new studio live in a pension, and it would be a finish off of my present method - Method is everything -- I should like a few more years work, but one will make me a painter of no ordinary tecknique [[technique]] - You will say I have improved I sketch now all the time and am trying hard to to make my eye true. Mrs. Chamberlain introduced me to a lady named Miss Dawton here whose brother owns