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with me - in their respective places. My chief sorrow is - that my beloved "unknown lady" - a cast of which I bought in Paris- and which never reached America until October 17th (with me) - got her most beautiful countenance chipped - nose, mouth & chin - too much traveling you see! - and that was very terrible - but - before it was all over, I had a surfeit before I  reached Italy. I think. It was too bad, too, for I could get again as much out of a trip then - if I had been fresh of it.

I have been in this studio for almost a month. I am living here, too, at present - not because I like the "bohemianism" - of it - or that the night-watchmen enjoys having me to bother almost! but because I can certainly not enjoy having a studio - rent - to pay, and another room somewhere 

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