Viewing page 25 of 41

This transcription has been completed. Contact us with corrections.

will keep us posted. Only a line will do - since your letter came we have had a worrying time about our little boy - He has been troubled more or less for years with enlarged tonsils and we have finally had them cut out - though they were each about the size of a half walnut - and one too large for the largest size instrument made for this purpose - the little chap stood it like a man - but it nearly killed me - I had been gradually working myself up to a fine nervous state and had imagined all sorts of terrible results but thought it is not pleasant having a carving match in ones innards this particular operation is really not so bad as it seems - I have also been serving on the Jury of the Champ de Mars and that is not pleasant - It is so hard to reject work that has meant in some cases a year or two of labor and hope - but space only allows us to accept some two hundred out of perhaps nearer four thousand works.

Now that work is over - and we have this week - press day - President’s Day - when Faure comes and says amiable nothings to us - and then the public varnishing day which opens the Exhibitions.

It is all more or less exciting but soon quiets down.

I think I told you that my principal picture this year is