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Letter #35

New York March 12th 1907

My dear Mr. Freer, 

Your several letters, particularly the long one written at sea before reaching Colombo, have given me the greatest delight. Your full and eloquently appreciative account of the beauty of the Egyptian art you found was a most charming piece of writing, which I read aloud for Mrs. Fenollosa's pleasure. Now what new wonders you must have been seeing! I shall not let you rest after your return till you have told me all about it again and again. And then there will be the hard-won specimens to gloat over. 

But now I must tell you just a little about my own affairs this winter. The seed of society, lectures sown last year at Miss Kanes is blossoming into a large tree. I think I told you of a course of 24 at Miss Kearney's school, in which I was to present an outline of the whole world's art. It was my first