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xxx - everything is going along in a haphazard way half the remaining boys doing nothing but preparing for going away xx Next week some of the boys are going on and about the 15th or 20th Duveneck & the remaining three or four." Turner & I will probably go to Munich via Vienna in June x & remain until the school re-opens in October." D. Expects to go to Paris & London for two or three months. Venice - May 7th 1886 "Duveneck arrived night-before last" Munich, Sept 6th 1880 Am quite pleased at the idea of getting to Venice over more as Duveneck is there." Venice Oct. 3 1880 "Duveneck has made some magnificent etchings here this summer." N.-B.- I think judging from my letters that D. gave up the Paris-London trip that summer - on went only for a short time. as he seems to have done a good deal of work [[strikeout]]here[[/strikeout]] in Venice & made some short excursions up into the mountains." Venice Oct 10. 1880 Duveneck will go over on Wednesday or Thursday of this week (to Florence) & want us to go along. xx Ritter has engaged us all rooms in the building with D. [[Lungo il?]]) where D. Ross Turner & Sit are to have studios." Florence Oct 31. 1880 xx "at last about all of our school have arrived and to-morrow we commence work." Florence Nov. 14-1880 xx - We have gotten well started at work and every day are hard at it from 8:30 'till 3:30 on it. Besides which some evenings we draw from 7 to 9. xxx - "About the portrait Duveneck commenced of me in Munich a couple of years ago. It was never finished because I went away to Venice." Florence Nov 28-1880. xxx - "This year the arrangements are somewhat different from which they were last. We have two studios - one of the old ones and another larger, splendid one - in the [[former?]] there was five of the boys who Duveneck has started on a picture - They being further advanced that the rest of us.- The rest of us, 10 in number (The school is limited to 15 now) in the larger studio are studying away at heads &c - This week we have a full figure - xxx besides our day work we draw each night for a couple of hours from the nude."