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in bad french for a while; he took me into see the chateau; it is the dismalest place I ever saw. The view from the top is fine one can see for miles in any direction. What I think would have interested you are the large greenhouses all around the place in which they grow nothing but grapes. He told me that some years they had as many as four and five thousand kilos. 

Before dinner I fished and landed three good sized ones I was told that at night it was especially good for certain fish, the catching of them. 

To I stayed indoors until four oclock and painted the most wonderful mess I ever saw it makes me feel bad to think that I am still capable of doing such sickly work. After scrapping it out I went to the rocks. 

I wish you could have seen the surf before sunset it was great, it was larger than I have seen it before, thought of you all the time know you would have enjoyed it. Across the golden light in the west the rain was falling, mountains of water were rolling in and did smash on the rocks throwing huge masses of spray above the rocks; so blue that it almost seemed unreal against the yellow sky. To see the cormorant fly along in the valley of a wave which was turning on the crest with angry foam gave me a thrill down the spine.

One of the men told me that sardine fishing was done for as the sea is to rough; asked me if I had ever been out in the boats with them and told me I could go with him in his boat if the weather would permit another trip. 

Will let you read Wheelocks letter when I see you, Said she received your letter and would answer it. Also that Fraiser had been ill all summer and that Gardin and Wright were were doing some large figures for a new theatre in the N.Y. The League has given Lila a sort of combined scholarship and monitorship for the modelling