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My dear Mother 

 Tuesday OCT 16, 1900 I went down way past the House’s of Parliament to look over the Tate collection of pictures , Mr Tate left this great collection of works, and a palace to boot, to the government, for the people. The building although only four or five years old looks over a hundred. The fog, and climate has turned it black; if the atmosphere affected the cite gems as it does the building, the people would all look like negros or coal-heavens. All the paintings were intensely interesting. Landseer’s were