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[[right side]] dollars a year. I have hunted for ten days to find one within my income and have at last arrived at one that although small will do - There is no room for my last Salon picture and hardly space for the armour [[armoire?]] — Still the studio is thirty feet long and twelve feet wide with an extra room - down stairs. Twelve feet is rather narrow after my Paris studio and rather high in price being three hundred dollars a year - I think I may decide on it later Mr. Ford is going to look at it with me. He feels certain that I am going to find something to do [[/right side]] [[left side]] here— Did you ever receive that letter I wrote from Paris telling you of my few bills &c and asking for an extra hundred dollars. Now I shan't take this studio if you cannot afford it - It would hurt me terribly to think of doing such a thing. I have seen in the London papers of great troubles on the market and whole half column about your Sea Board [[Seaboard]] Air Line - Williams Middendorf and their embarrasments. Dear Father if you are also in trouble cable me a line on receiving this and I shall not take a studio but simply paint around in different houses if I get the chance — Also I have these great galleries to study [[/left side]]
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Williams and Middendorf
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