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a note that would be heard. Can you do this for me another year. If not I shall return home. Trying to get work with some decorator. I  can't do illustrations. I [[strikethrough]] del deslise [[strikethrough]] dislike it, as Father would a bucket shop. It is a low order of art. You at home, must to understand me have me  with you. I can very easily show you that what I am in for is worth while, and shall never give up these two things. Representation of old  life, and young. What is considered as good work is not so very far ahead. I am in a way sorry to leave, but shall go to London by May 15th and start for home somewhere around the 25th.

First can you afford to allow me eight hundred dollars next year? Secondly if Mr. Ford thinks there is the same opportunity to make head way in London would it please you more for me to stay there. Father's letter of last month was very plain. I understand fully that he cannot afford to give me more and that he is against my study here. And if I were a manly man I should not ask for more. it is simply robbing you; but I do want to succeed, and can by more study. Now Shall I return to Paris, and leave my furniture in my studio