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Dear Emma and children, 

It's all right about the photographer's letter which you have sent to the old address because each time I go there I ask for mail. There has been a change for the better in the weather the last few days and hopes of it continuing. Mr. Taft has been here for about ten days giving lectures of European Art, costly French sculpture (four of them) to study what has been in every thing French in France. Nothing is left undone. We take specialist, history of architecture specialist in every period of the three fine arts in France, specials in the history of Franco. Political social when we get through we will know more about France than most Frenchmen. Most of the lectures are given by French Specialists. Every noon and sometimes the in the evening, if we had a school like this in America we would soon do something also. All the boys are not alive to the great opportunity but I do not blame them . They have been away from home a long time and the excitement of war has passed. And the only thing on their minds is to go home, ahich [[which]] is natural, at the end of July the best ones will be given two weeks travel, trips all over France, so you can imagine what a wonderful inspiration it will be to many of them, after being crammed with lectures, actual applications, short trips to Paris. A little drilling and in fact they are kept busy from morning 7.30 in the morning until 10.30 at night. Logan and I add two hours to our own days by getting up at five A.M. and sketching before breakfast. 

Now I must go and eat  I hear the bugle