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[[left-hand side]] My dear Parents - This week was spent working in the old church on a picture of one corner - I finished the small sketch - a canvas that will go in the frame of mine the size of Jim Wilders portrait [[sketched image]] The study came out so well that I determined to make one twice as large - about as big as my portrait of the old Chemist - It will be good for St. Louis - and not to large for use afterwards This is really an old country we are living in [[right-hand side]] in new surprises each day. In the old little shop in Azy the good woman asked if I was interested in coins She brought out coins of Julius Ceasar - coins of the Empire before him - Treasures for a Museum - Her husband is a mason and finds these treasures in old houses he demolishes. He found a pair of arms with fifteen bracelets on them - and some rare ornamented head-dress in an old convent Also an old skull with a [[strike-through]][[?]][[/strike-through]] bit of stone money in the mouth - This old town once had an fortress at each corner which were eventually beaten down by the