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Monday 10th 
Feb 10, 1901 
month? year? 

My dear Mother 

I have met the master. He lives in a large house just off the Thames. I was ushered into a low long room and told to wait until a sitting ended. Presently Sargent himself walked in, asked me to follow, saw me up into a studio; there I waited. 

In fifteen minutes I went to the main studio, and opposite on an easel was the finest painting of two girls I ever saw. Wertheimer's daughters, it is the strongest and most beautiful arrangement I have ever seen. Mr. Sargent is a wizard.