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Letter #33
    
It is a pity that this opening of my lecture season should at all have interfered with the pleasure of having so many last hours with you. On the other hand, it has been necessary for me to get as many lectures as possible this season, for I have really had
no source of income since last spring.
  
The making of the prints from the new negatives has been vexatiously delayed by the difficulty of getting large sized platinum paper in New York. After some promises it had to be sent for from St. Louis. I expect a part of them to be finished by Wednesday night; so that they