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that I will have much trouble in being able to read german very easily if I look up every word in the dictionary that I do not understand. The grammar will I think give me very little trouble.
 Yesterday and the day before I have been making a copy of a small Cézanne that belongs to Mr. Stein. Have two copies that are much better than I expected to get. I may give one to you if I find that in one of them I will have enough of what I copied [[strikeout]] them [[/strikeout]] it for. To me the original is infinitive. It will rest in my mind as a standard of what I want to attain in my painting, ie. the qualities which it contains to such a great degree.
 I wish that Stein would let me copy another one which he has. A figure composition that is a beauty.
 Some time this coming week I will go over to the American Consuls to get a permit to send some of my sketches to you. There will only be about four. I think the three St. Guenole [[Guénolé]] sketches are better than the one I gave away last fall which you liked. 
 How that I am able to walk about again I expect to go out to Mardon quite often and sketch. I am rather wishing that some one will take me studio of [[off]] my hands so that