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on making their bread and butter thro' illustration until that time that their ship sails in -
This seems to me to be the easiest, and safest way of keeping above board - I have already commenced to work up a few samples, and told that it will not be difficult for a man of my experience to find work.
London dealers would take as many small pictures of children as I can make at painfully small prices. But I do not care to do that sort of thing until I have to - Never the less I wish you would send by the first kindly person coming over my small works of the two children walking backs turned, of the two nudes under a yellow sky and another small