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1895.
Boston.
Upstairs we found a nice little lot of paintings some "old masters". Stuart's
portraits of George and Martha Washington. Vedder's "Lair of the Sea Serpent"
&c.&c.&c. Also many other interesting things. Japanese Watercolors - relics - dresses & laces &c.&c. Was tired enough by the time I got around to the laces and didn't look at the etchings at all. Then we went over to the beautiful Library - whose vestibule & hall, including lamps, brass signs of the zodiac &c. remind me very much of the N.Y. state bldg at the Fair. The Sienna staircase & lions were certainly fine. Also the glimpse of the court & fountain from the little stone balcony. We went thro' the halls and ref. rooms (some of them) and newspaper room and into beauti- ful Bates Hall & in dull green & whitish green - white busts on Serpentine marble pedestals - mantels - everything fine. No use trying to describe it all, either - not Abbey's
beautiful frescoes in the delivery room. They are beautiful, certainly, but I was a little bit disappointed in the way in which they were placed. The coloring of the ceiling and

1895.
Boston.
Upstairs we found a nice little lot of paintings some "old masters". Stuart's
portraits of George and Martha Washington. Vedder's "Lair of the Sea Serpent"
&c.&c.&c. Also many other interesting things. Japanese Watercolors - relics - dresses & laces &c.&c. Was tired enough by the time I got around to the laces and didn't look at the etchings at all. Then we went over to the beautiful Library - whose vestibule & hall, including lamps, brass signs of the zodiac &c. remind me very much of the N.Y. state bldg at the Fair. The Sienna staircase & lions were certainly fine. Also the glimpse of the court & fountain from the little stone balcony. We went thro' the halls and ref. rooms (some of them) and newspaper room and into beauti- ful Bates Hall & in dull green & whitish green - white busts on Serpentine marble pedestals - mantels - everything fine. No use trying to describe it all, either - not Abbey's
beautiful frescoes in the delivery room. They are beautiful, certainly, but I was a little bit disappointed in the way in which they were placed. The coloring of the ceiling and

1895.
Boston.
Upstairs we found a nice little lot of paintings some "old masters". Stuart's
portraits of George and Martha Washington. Vedder's "Lair of the Sea Serpent"
&c.&c.&c. Also many other interesting things. Japanese Watercolors - relics - dresses & laces &c.&c. Was tired enough by the time I got around to the laces and didn't look at the etchings at all. Then we went over to the beautiful Library - whose vestibule & hall, including lamps, brass signs of the zodiac &c. remind me very much of the N.Y. state bldg at the Fair. The Sienna staircase & lions were certainly fine. Also the glimpse of the court & fountain from the little stone balcony. We went thro' the halls and ref. rooms (some of them) and newspaper room and into beauti- ful Bates Hall & in dull green & whitish green - white busts on Serpentine marble pedestals - mantels - everything fine. No use trying to describe it all, either - not Abbey's
beautiful frescoes in the delivery room. They are beautiful, certainly, but I was a little bit disappointed in the way in which they were placed. The coloring of the ceiling and
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