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3 Today I stayed home & tried to get a stove in Mt. Vernon for the studio but could not [[strikekout can't]]find anything with mica in it like John's. as stoves are not much used here abouts anymore---especially self feeders. Got some paint & painted the floor of the spare-room for you, but don't like the color, so may stain my room floor instead---as Cahill says when your floor looks well & clean it does not matter very much about the rest of the room. This afternoon I started a small study of a mark-