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You'll laugh at all that I know, but I am such a limited person that I find it hard to change. I went to the St Botolf Club after the play to cheer up a bit but I found most of the men talking about things that D.B. don't understand, so I snookered in silence for a while and then went over to the Tavern Club and talked with Henri Walker for an hour, not finding much exhileration under his treatment I came out and went to bed. They're a clever crowd of men here too, they all do something and most of them do it extremely well. Saw the Magistrate the other night. Annie Clarke of course, but it was very thouroughly done, and I thought it very good.

I've painted several times a Mrs Gower's portrait and have succeeded in getting it to that point where it gives me the shivers to look at it. You know - or perhaps you don't. I hope you don't.

My dear boy its perfectly amazing the way people troop to church here Sunday morning, the streets are black with 'em, it looks like a fire, and makes me [[strikethrough]] very [[/strikethrough]] as melancholy as a gib-cat as Jack Falstaff remarks. I've had an extremely curious exhibition of my "works" here in Boston. It was calculated to turn the stomach of any honest man, but the guiless Bostonians seemed to like them not to the point of buying them, for your true Bostonian is above all things prudent but to the point of putting half columns of strange matter in the Boston papers. I am generally introduced to people something after this fashion.

"Brown: do you know Bunker? No. Ah: Brown this is Mr Bunker, a man by jove sir who has come here from New York" - Brown here evinces a kind of stupid astonishment and evidently thinks I'm insane, - and is one of the cleverest men in Boston today" - 'Pon my soul Joe, it's very embarrassing.

The school here is running fairly well, I regret to say that it is composed largely of females but that seems to be inevitable. The mens life class is in the evening and is fairly well attended, but there seems no chance at present of making a class in the morning for the males. I see no possibility of making a strong school of it, what they care about more than anything else