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city of Paris is truly the European mecca for art lovers and art students. Here they gather and they take time to enjoy art in the right way. It interests me greatly to see parties visiting the Whistlers then going to the Louvre and elsewhere to smoke comparisons. All this is as it should be and what Mr. Whistler so intellectually foresaw - 

I have met many early friends of Whistler as well as some of recent years and the intercourse with them all has been delightful. Benidite is writing a memorial to be published with reproductions of about forty of the pictures in the exhibition - I have subscribed for a copy for us both and one for Asia also. Some months will be required for publishing.  

Friends here [[strikethrough]] are [[/strikethrough]] inherited in and possessing Oriental art are most kind - museum cases and private collections are everywhere, thrown open to Mr. Morse and myself, and we, accompanied by Miss Nordlinger as interpreter, counselor and friend are securing practically everything Oriental in this great center of Japanese Chinese and Central Asian appreciations. Migeon of the Louvre and Koechlin and Isaac of the Arts Decoratif are particularly kind.

But two continuous weeks of such ardent study fills one over full so on Saturday next I shall go to London for a stay of about ten days and