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among his friends.  I had quite a long chat with Mme Duran (Henri Greville) the other day.  She is an amusing old body and chatters in a very agreeable parisian fashion, the best quality which she has seems to be her acquaintance with many swells about whom I was very glad to hear.  I have just come in from what is said to be the most beautiful house in Boston and indeed I don't think I ever saw a more delightful place.  I talked to the daughter of Julia Ward Howe, who is herself a delightful and sympathetic person.  I believe she said she knew St Gaudens, so you may have met her too, at all events she is solid as St G. and likewise on Thayer so I naturally froze to her at once.  I don't know why on earth I write to you about these people but I've nothing else to talk of.  I am wading about in the symbolical intricacies [[strikethrough]] of [[/strikethrough]] which Mr. Goete loved to