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spend the afternoon with the Rawlinsons in their pretty Holland Park home. 

My Nocturne recently received in Detroit came from them. 

On Monday next, I am to see the Oriental collection of Mr Samuels &c &c I am giving you all of these details to let you know why my stay here continues so long and what I am doing.
 
In fact, I have been extremely busy and most instructively entertained. 
Not an hour has been wasted. No one ever 


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had finer opportunities to study Mr Whistlers work - and I shall have seen every important painting done by him after finishing my stay here and having spent a few days in Holland and France. 

It is proving a delightful and valuable experience besides confirming the opinions of my own which have been gradually manifesting themselves during the last fifteen years on certain matters of beauty. 

At times, I wonder and wonder why all of this charm and