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by mail, here, exchange for two thousand pounds. I have neither lost my head, had my pocket picked, nor spent more than 450 pounds yet. I have kept sober too - or perhaps I should say decently sober. But I have lost my heart (only partially to a girl, and she is here from Capri - but that was of course foreordained -) to some paintings by Whistler which I am negotiating for through Marchant and which I think he will secure next week and hence being in the fight, I of course, called upon you for amunition. It is an entire collection of his drawings