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Close the house, and all came over -- My work -- It is so much to to write that I can only say that without boasting that I may be near the high water mark - Mr. Graves has helped me plan from my first sketches a picture which alone I could scarcely develope so well - His great experience in composition has helped my arrangement. It would please you to know perhaps that in return for his time and patience, I am only - to teach him how to paint. It is all he asks Colin has and is giving me private criticisms and he and Lazar and Delecluse - all agree