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my hands off and a very great deal better for all others concerned.

Oriental art and architecture is "crawling through my innards" so to speaks and whether it will prove a tonic or a tape worm is still an enigma- I can certainly hope for no certain result until after digestion and that means many months- So were there no other reason I should hate greatly with my present impressions, to entirely over look what I have recently seen, and I could not if would forget Italy- The architecture of the two countries is alike and still entirely different i.e. thoroughly artistic but upon different planes of application- A modification of my personal choice of the types of either country I know would delight me, but how others would like it- architecture being as Whistler puts it, "still a matter of taste" is entirely another and in  the present instance the important thing- 

I was glad to hear of the beautiful compliment paid Senator Mc Millan by the Republican Caucus- Burroughs I suppose is a good man-

Your sale of Hocking Valley paper shows that dullness still runs its sluggish course in  America- A slight suggestion

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