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a darkroom as Esther and Oliver took and developed their own pictures. 

Oliver was born that December 1, 1900 in the newly furbished house. In the last month of her pregnancy, Esther made curtains for the entire four-story and basement house. The same curtains were used later at 93 Mt. Vernon St, and some I am still ussing at 188 Granite St.,Pigeon Cove.  Dr. Mead and Dr. Haven attended the birth with nurse Miss Lynch in attendance. Oliver, Sr. bought Esther a begonia plant. 

Esther painter  several pastels of the new baby: Oliver in a bassinette (at 188)   Head of baby Oliver, Pastel (at 188).

For the summer of 1900, theOliver Williamses rented the Blodgett house in Winchester. During the Winchester summer there were many lunch parties with friends. Annie Shepley (one of the girls who went to Paris with Esther wholater married Omori and lived an eventful lifein Tokyo) came to stay a few days and they drove to Weston to visit the Winsors. The Williamses met andinvited to dinner that summer the Prendergast brothers, Charlie and Maurice who lived in Winchester. "Charming fellow" Esther writes in her diary. They saw each other frequently in the Bostonhouse. The Williams couple couple invited the Prendergasts to join them in Annisquam after the Williamses bought their own house there in 1901. They eschanged Christmas gifts. Maurice mentions in aletter to Esther that he enjoyed painting the same subject with her (probably when both painted TheWilliams nurse, Annie Sargeant Jewett -- oil paintings now in the Metropolitan Museum). Mauricepainted Esther and baby Tom in 1902 (painting in the Boston Museum Prendergast show, with 
white Windsor chair predominant and nurse Annie Jewett in the background) Maurice mentions looking forward to painting with Esther up in her new top floor studio when they move
into the 92 Mt. Vernon Street house which theWilliams had just bought and through which Maurice had wandered while the Williams were in Annisquam. 

In the spring of 1902 while pregnant with Tom, Esther finally finished her: Portrait of Aunt Lucy  Oil of her 2-year nephew Paul Winsor and she reports "Oliver drew on his little slate with my aid, bewitched with it". After Esther was born in 1907 she painted a pastel of her:  Pastel of baby Esther in basineete  but that was about the end of her painting. She used to tell us that every time she started painting, some domestic catastrophe would occur. This she felt was a sign