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disfigurations in our lifes work. I am receiving the material essential for the renewing of ambition, and the nourishing of an inspiration, that now has taught me this: That without it my work becomes ordinary and irksome. So this trip of mine I am using not only to develope mind and body, but these other important aids. And as to my future it comes to this, that in myself only can I look for real aid (such as the building up of a reservoir of good thoughts and great ideas, to be drawn on in the future- The old masters at the National Gallery always remain refreshing to me. Each time on seeing them I seem to inhale some new inspiration. They are a great help. 

I have written to Runyan.

I have already given the