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a brother. I told him my feelings toward the work and desire to use it as a recreation rather than to lower it to a marketable value. That I wanted to get into business.

By the way he is going about with an impression that amuses me. Continually referring to S.D. Loring & Son as people of unlimitable capital etc. He paints you in kindly colors and a brush full of gold paint. His enormous acquaintance here is mostly on paper and would not have helped me much in painting. The evening I met him he introduced me to a sandy-haired liberal who took him to Liberal Club to dine. It is a Club of open doors- and no position