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London is the best place to work - in. - And I find now I've started that it is a relief to be away from the good chaps of Paris - Things are different when one is working seriously for something other than tecknique - You can judge whether I am absorbed in my work. This morning I started on my Boston picture and putting down my pallette, feeling hungry, found it was ten minutes of four - I had been walking to and fro from my work since half past eight, and was entirely lost in the production. Only once before have I done this, and that was in the Museum at Boston long ago - London is a good place for me - My work is making among members of the Langham a fine impression and I hope that it will hit the dealers in the same way. I am having some children pose each day they cost more than the Parisian model— 

Next week I am to meet Pavel, Wolsey and Thompson. I believe I told you that I had received a special invitation to the Chamberlains next Sunday. They are going to have two great singers and a professional whistler perform. . I am as you suggest a house-holder - but without taxes - three fires to build each morning, and rooms to clean up. It does my character a world of good to have these cares, and with all these things, by keeping my accounts I find that I ought to be able to live easily on eighty dollars a month and save that twenty. I am going now to my sitting room to read up an interesting History of England. It is nine o'clock and all is well - my sitting room though small is finer than any room in Newton Centre— 
Love William

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I have bought a large lounge for it and the whole room is stunningly effective— 

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The sitting room makes a fine gallery— 


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AMERICAN EXPRESS CO.
WATERLOO PLACE
LONDON, S.W.
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VISITORS WRITING ROOM
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BOSTON, MASS
NOV 21
830 AM.
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E-22-Apr.'03.