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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