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Cöln, den Oct 2, 1912

Hôtel Disch [[logo]]

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given me a key to future actions regarding collecting.

Van G. and Gauguin are perfectly clear to me.

Cezanne only in part, although they say that his exhibit is not evenly good, Two or three are perfectly beautiful a couple of portraits and one or two still lifes, his landscapes are still Greek to me, but wait, I'll understand before I get home

One thing I have discovered, and it will please you. = Ive been on the night track ever since the second time at Blandford.

If I live long enough I will be in the class with the best and it will be me personally not a swipe and copy like the rest of the younger set After seeing the show I felt like throwing my hat in the air. I was so happy, I feel that this trip will act as a purgative and clarify things which would otherwise require years.

You don't know how happy we ought to be that we have been doing honest art. 

Its worth a thousand professor titles and a billion dollars to boot.

That's enough about the show, for awhile, I'll see many others before I get home.

This hotel has been improved since Davies was here, and is now the swell one of the town of course I had to stay here