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other night, when we heard Faust and had a jolly time- I suppose they've told you of their amusing adventure in getting home.  We are going to the Salon Wednesday after noon, all excepting your Sister whose knee prevents her from doing much walking.  They have a very comfortable little apartment up in the Rue Keppler where I feel more at home than anywhere else in Paris.

I've not the least idea where Cranford and Platt have gone to, they left nearly a week ago, and I've not had any of their "nouvelles" up to the present date. Probably I shall join them about the first of July, if they settle down by that time.

I hope you're enjoying yourself up at Cornwall I don't know the place at all, but have been told that it is very charming.  I hear that Thayer is flourishing, which gives me great pleasure..he deserves to.  You ought to be very happy up there with him for he is certainly the biggest 

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painter in America. 

I finished Cranfords portrait a month or so ago, and think it the best thing I've painted.  The old "man" said it was leathery but serious, a remark which gave me much to think about.  I suppose you have heard that he - the old man) has two things at the Salon - one of them is very beautiful, a moonlight in the desert, with some lions playing in the foreground, and no end of stars in the sky - very good stars.  Nothing particularly new to tell you.  Everything in the atelier is just the same, there are not so many men working owing to the recent concerns.  The enterprising Levy walked in yesterday - he has taken a big atelier up by the Bal Bullier and   seems quite happy - I believe he's going to Holland this summer in company with Mr Chase - his work is more disheartening than ever.  There is an exhibition of [[guess]]Muir[[/guess]] [[guess]]Siruin[[/guess]] work in the Rue de Sèze

Transcription Notes:
Georges Petit had a highly successful gallery on the Rue de Seze in Paris. That might give us a clue as to the name of the artist at the bottom of the 2nd page. Thayer - Abbott Henderson Thayer, American painter who "enjoyed a certain prominence in his lifetime" Bal Bullier - ballroom in Paris