He approves of the number of works being reduced, only three weeks ago he signed a petition to the Royal Academy to that effect. He has never sent more than three and only once as many as that. He discusses whether
Dewey Bates, an old student friend and very hard up, is the right man to write an article. They first met twenty years before, when he was drawing in Antwerp. They remained close while Bates was in Paris with
Swan &
Dagnan, studying under
Gérôme. He has met with little success in England.