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feelings I am grateful. In earlier years I have withdrawn very much into my shell, but at least I think I am still a boy. By your letter I find that you have missed a letter from me. I did write you as soon as I was well settled, giving you my address and telling you how nicely and comfortably we are housed. My studio is really superb, and the light is simply magnificent.

It will spoil me for my New York place when I have to return. Our appartment and studio are together but doors can be locked and the studio is entirely separated. The life here is so much more agreeable than in New York. Here all the painters meet me with open arms, and do all they can to make it pleasant for us, and we find them a fine set of fellows, and what is very flattering, I find they know all that I have been doing for years. I am working as I have never worked before for this is such a fine chance for me, and should make a great difference in my work. Everything here is on a higher plane than in New York and the city is a constant delight to us. Indeed there is no other place in the world like it. New York is a village beside it, and an hour here is worth years 

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