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he exhibits and how much he produces.

I am painting children. In Paris all little Italy is supplying every Monday about forty babies, and children to select from. From the point of turning out pictures Paris is the Paradise. I shall, you can depend on it, exhibit next spring my best work in London (try to.)

But to go there for the season unless my work is known would be like living in a hermitage. The Fords think I ought to go there. In my new studio I can paint many out-door subjects for I have a little garden. Already I have planned out some pictures for this out door light. And giving such a wide range for work induced me to take this studio.

This afternoon a wealthy lady and daughter neighbors of the late Vice President Hobart are going to call to see the work that next week I am going to send to you. Last week a Philadelphia lady called, very sweet she was something like Aunt Delia.

The day before I had noticed in the New York Herald a letter asking for an old winter over coat. I dropped a postal saying I had one, and that is how Mrs. E.G. Fink called. She lives in Paris. She is trying to help an old lawyer. As Aunt Delia, she is well upon the subjects of her ancestors &c You will remember Fathers old 

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