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omit [[strikethrough]] me so fully - your reports of Watson's health beg then with what he and Anna have gotten of course, is most encouraging and it heightens my hope for his complete recovery - And the good health of your own gamily, and Franks family, is also very gratifying [[strikethrough]] of [[/strikethrough]] word to have. What you wrote concerning business shows that the revival is still a long way off - Well, I think we are a (reconciled to the stagnation and [[strikethrough]] and [[/strikethrough]] convinced that time only can bring return of activity. [[/strikethrough]] omit

Paris is very gay, and amusing and interesting in instinctive. My first visit to the Luxembourg and first sight of the treasures of the Louvre gave me peculiar sensations - in some instance like that of meeting

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and old and valued friend and finding him more charming than ever - in others just the opposite emotions - and then the discovery that some painting which heretofore had been without interest as known from photographs possessed unrenowned of charm gave to the experience a novelty hard to describe - How splendid the "winged victory" and the "Venus of Milo" - I would wager anything that both are by the same artist - And the Infala - by Velasquez how graceful and rich in color! Whistler has been perfectly charming - He called upon me at my hotel during the terrible wind storm of last Monday evening - since when I have lunched twice at his beautiful little home-

Last night he presided at a dinner gotten up by Dewing MacMonnie and myself - It