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Letter #70

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park is rather good but not fine. The inmates of the great National Tobacco plant, "Cigarette girls of Seville", are as a collection the most hideously ugly specimens of womankind I have ever seen. And all of this is absolutely true notwithstanding the volumes of poetry and prose that still exist in praise of their beauty. The building in which they work is a beautiful old convent of enormous size, surrounded by what was once a lovely garden and all enclosed within a huge and handsome wall.

The building and wall should be restored, the garden replanted, the whole business turned into a temporary hospital, and every one of its present occupants committed to the hospital for the balance of their miserable

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