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101 Boulevard du Mont Parnasse
Paris Nov15, 1869

Dear Father
I wrote a letter home on the 28th of Sept over six weeks ago + not hearing from either you or Aunt Libbie I conclude you could not have received my letter. If it was lost it is the first since I have been here. In it I requested either you or Melville to go to Bowles Brothers a& Co 76 State St Boston + deposit a hundred dollars with them + get a right draft on their firm here for as many francs payable to me if gold was not too high. On account of waiting on that man in New York for money which I have been expecting for some time + have no received. I am entirely out of money + am living on the Sculptors I am with. I would not have been fixed so if I had received my money from NY. as I expected. It is very disagreeable indeed & if I am to be fixed so often I would rather give up art at once & come home & go to work. If I do not get any money from N.Y. I will end my note to Aunt Libbie & have her put it in the hands of a Lawyer for collection. If you got my letter & sent a draft as I requested I have