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8 rue de la Grand Chaumiere
July 29th

My dear Mother - 

This will be a brief letter. I am writing in my new studio. I am happy for last week I painted a picture that has great feeling, it was of an old woman. A woman whose face showed much - a face that would make a man stop and think. It is a calm sorrowful and yet beautiful expression. One hard to describe. It is painted with great care. And the result makes me proud. Delance the instructor at Delecluses school said many things in it would make a man much older happy at having accomplished. It is rich in color. Well, this week I am painting in the same garden a beautiful little Italian girl. Large eyes not a wrinkle. Loveable she has posed once (this afternoon) She is five