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was quite different when my Mother came and I remember her appearance there gave a note of fashion and grace of manner which my New York relations had not even themselves attained. To be sure New York shops can furnish the garments but it is not all New York people who can wear them becomingly
In May I was back at the Morgan Park farm where Father Mother and my Brother Charlie passed a happy summer though my Father was much worried and depressed over his business. It had been however decided that I should go to Europe and study during the following winter. My companions at the Academy school in New York George de Forest Brush and J. Alvin[[?]] Will [[?]] sailed that summer for Paris and I was anxious to follow them. I had a new sweet heart, Fanny Parsons having gone