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in these early Italian primatives than I ever expected to find. In fact the whole Italian school has got the Dutchmen nailed to the mast I think. What imagination, conceptions, and decorative arrangements that not one of the Dutchmen had with only two or three exceptions.

But this is not art talk.

How are you and what have you to say for yourself? Did you get the letter I wrote to Rome on receipt of the letter you carried