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My dear Mother I am writing this note in a friend’s room. I have spent this day in rest having finished my Salon work, and forwarded it. Two pictures in all. Perhaps they may get in. Probably not Walden says that this year 700 hundred pictures less will be taken; this year many broken, and striving fellows will be disappointed One can see in the street young artists carrying their pictures across the river in small push carts. Most of them having more talent than money. The reverse in my case. Fifteen thousand pictures in all to select from and 1300 hundred taken. Is Paris a center of art? Paris is the heaven of art it is beautiful and inspiring