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Apr. 11. 1904

My dear Father
I am so pleased that today it has been impossible for me to work. The Academy have kept my large painting of the two boys - and returned other. I consider it as a bit of a triumph as the work has been acknowledge by the first important jury as having enough merit to remain. Now as the work is absolutely different from anything English and not in the least pretty and as I am without friends in the committees I realize I may still suffer defeat from the Hanging Committee for unlike the Salon, they have