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Monday 23d.

My dear Parents -
I trust the hospital will be closed by the time you receive this letter - I received the newspapers from home. and they are a comfort - My work is going so smoothly and evenly that it is certain this years Salon will be a winner. It goes far ahead of any thing I have ever done it is a great composition, a fine picture already. You know I have the frame for it, and it is six or seven feet long by five feet wide. It is