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[[start page]] to have entered into the [[lists?]] with you in regard to some of your opinions but independent of the fact that it would be a useless expenditure of time and ink - I cannot now, as I have lent the paper to a friend, remember precisely the points upon which we particularly join issue - Would you like me to tell you something about the Exhibitions here - That called the Counter exhibition is just closed, - perhaps the most remarkable pictures it contained were some landscapes by the two [[end page]] [[start page]] young Linnells - mixtures of their fathers style with pre. Raphaelition or whatever you choose to call it - they were very ugly but exceedingly true in a narrow sense of the word - At the British Institution there is an average Collection - I will say nothing about the bad pictures. - the good are few, ^[[three]] landscapes by Tom Danby; Dawson, & Dillon are the best in the collection - Some interiors by [[P?]] are at least equal to Ortade or [[Temers ?]] - they are very perfect things - perhaps [[?]] [[Border Span ?]] is the best [[end page]]