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He comes from a distinguished Dutch family and is a marvel of courtesy and gentility. I thought I had met a few Whistler Enthusiasts but van Gravesende surpasses all. They were friends and had worked and travelled together. van G. places Whistler equal with Rembrandt and Frans Hals. He saw the Paris Exhibition and ranks it as one of the greatest one-man shows ever held. By degrees, I am meeting other competent judges who feel so strongly in the same direction that the trouble taken seems worth while. Your two good letters of July 18th reached me just before I left London and would have been answered earlier but for the fact of the