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She is a busy woman & I fancy what she told you, though much better done, would only be a repetition of my endeavors.

I hope I shall not grow too warm and say too many glorious things! We are French you know! Our father came from the South of France, the land of art and romance where it is almost Italy. He used to draw pictures on the slates for us when children - of wonderful animals doing amazing things. I always felt that he would have been an artist. He could draw without lessons, without knowing it - which was a thing my

distinguished sister never never dreamed of doing. 

She never took lessons while at school a circumstance which she always holds up to girls who try to draw while they are doing other things - she says they cant!   She was about 17 when she began work at Miss Drinker's studio, and every day & all day she worked - studying and reading at home over lessons in perspective & all manner of tedious technicalities.  Miss Drinker was a great student and inspired my sister with a love, which she was full of at any rate, of everything that was