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Grand Hotel Continental
Munchen, July 15th 1901.

My dear Colonel-

[[strikethrough]] You [[/strikethrough]] Your two good letters of June 18th and 20th, reached me here together, day before yesterday and gave me much pleasure.

I find Munich rather colorless after Italy still, the "Englischer Garten" with its swift running branch of the Isar is really fine! some of its streets and old buildings interesting and its groups of Greek sculpture, early Italian, early Dutch and Flemish painting, fine - there is also some good early German painting by Durer et. al. And, to my surprise I find the present exhibition of modern international art very instructive; beautiful in no sense, and saved by complete rottenness by Whistler, Sargent, Melchers, and a few others, but valuable in showing to what depths of imbecility the great horde of modern painters have fallen.

"The Little Lady Soho" presides in honor in the principal court upon a throne of her own.

Dresden will hold me probably, four or five days after which I expect to go to Paris and sail from Cherbourg on the 21st inst as originally contemplated. Friends from America now on this side have kindly urged me to change steamers and return with them. Whistler wants me to give him three weeks in Paris and London, "I have plans" he writes, but to them all I have said nay, for indeed I am far from starved, my cup is already full, and home and