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some addresses of boarding places in Florence, and if ever I go there to continue teaching me Italian. 
  Mr. Sen and I had planned going next spring to Rome, Florence, and Pompeii. We were going to stop over in Paris both ways, where on our return we should have separated. Sen going to Marseills and I should have remained in Paris. All painters enthuse over the galleries of Italy, but I find in dear old London quite enough to study. Wonderful pictures. One day Raphael is my instructor the next a master of the Dutch school tells me something and I'm sure when you see the paintings that I have started here you will wonder at the advance in my work.
  I have now received my letters to John Sargent and shall call this week armed with my good looks and questions in regards to what is best. 
  My decrepit old model howls with ham, and swears against the weather here. Millet says he never knew