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May 3, 1902 My dear Mother This afternoon I met the brother in law of Fritz Tharlow, a man of great weight large beard, and reputation. It was a strange coincidence that he sent to the new Salon a young painter studying a very old meager woman while I sent to the old Salon an old man with a young model. We talked for an hour and my French puzzled him and astonished me. I really got on well. He says his brother in law finds Carnegie of Pitsburg a help to his pocket book. He talked about going next week into the country for the summer. He has forty-six pupils here. I am really anxious to get away it is hard for me to apply myself. I am leaving so soon. I should like to have been going into the country with such a painter But wish