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in my ambitions.  I should like to paint subjects now, and leave portraiture to others.  After careful thought, and a knowledge of my own likings. I feel that my field is not so much portraits, as subject of old characters, and young children.
I can see that all thro my short career my strongest pictures have been of old age or child life. I am most fond of this and it is my still small voice that keeps bringing me around to this train of thought.  Now, before settling down I should like to produce a number of these subjects, and be finished with material for the struggle - I know I can do something worth while, and feel that without another attempt to produce works in this art center, I could get along fairly well.  But thro Paris it is the shortest road to perfection.  I am willing to go home and do what I can to earn a living, but am unwilling to go at present to London so far from excellence as my work is and to fight in the art world with such men as Sargent and [[Shannon?]] would be fool-hardy.  The germ of my ability is only just started to be [[strikethrough]] del [[/strikethrough]] developed and in one year more I do feel that something good - and worth notice could be put on the market in any country by me.  With a half dozen individual works produced for exhibitions I would strike