and a most helpful and obliging fellow* I thin& I told you 
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of his good mother in my last letter* On Monday morning I 
went with Mrs. Philippi and the five grandchildren of the 
family down to Constitution on the Pacific where I spent two 
days sketching and wandering along what is perhaps the most 
picturesque coast in America. J got only four good sketches. 
The wind blew hard and was cold and I have caught a pretty 
"bad cold, but otherwise am in excellent shape. 
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"So far I have only one letter from you here and on the 
assumption that one or more war e forwarded to Buenos Aires I 
have had them telegraph to the Paris Hotel there making in- 
quiries. 
"Being busy since my return from the south, catching 
up in various matters I have had to cut out a dinner at the 
Irgentine Minister’s and several horse show receptions and 
flower bombardments. I am now counting the days to pass be- 
fore we set sail for the north — on the sixth of January* 
A dozen or more of our American party and half a dozen ladies 
will be stopping in Peru. If everything goes well I hope to 
spend about two weeks in the visit to Lake Titicaca and 
Cuzao and a week about Lima. Then! oh, then! I am off for 
home.” 
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