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I enclose you a letter or should I call it a lecture which Kenneth wrote to Platt and which P. forwarded to me, a sort of circular letter [[?]] probably not unknown to you. I'd like to know just what you think of it. As for me I am before all a painter, and I'll be hanged if I see how the charming verses of Mr. Longfellow or the essays of Mr. Emerson can make up to a man for the loss of the Louvre or in fact for a single good word from the patron. I received a letter from a very strong Frenchman the other day which I am going to copy and send to you, because although it runs much the same as Kenneth's it seems somehow to carry convictions