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had ever heard from her. He said that the family was going back to Spain in May for a year or two. It always seemed to me that she treated you in a very peculiar way. I wonder what is the matter with her. 

I saw Clifford Mallory the other day and asked him about his steamer that ran to Galveston and he said it would take six or seven days to get there and about two days across the state of Texas which would make eight or nine days altogether. If I could only afford the time I would love to go that way. I did think of going to Texas so that I could get back about the fourth of March but I have given up that idea now because it doesn't make much difference whether I am home for my exhibition or not and so I can stay South a longer time. 

I have painted some pictures since I have been in New York that I think are much better than anything I have done before and the artists seem to think so too so I feel very much encouraged about my work. In my exhibition I want to have about all Hudson River Subjects and rather large canvases so that they may be the more striking. You know in these days of keen competition everything seems to be like a battle and each man must fight for himself and a man ought to feel content if he can get his head even ever so little above his fellows. Especially in Art where a man is always felt through his pictures. If he is a weak man he will paint weak pictures and if a strong man he will paint strong pictures. I don't mean

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Right side comes first