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KINGSLEY, ROSE JAN 2, 1898
Jan 2. / 98.
My dear Mrs. Sewall
One word of greeting for the new year. May /98 bring you [strength?] & peace and may it bring prosperity to your noble work for all your girls. I hope that it may bring me the chance of seeing you & the dear school again. For I am, thank God nearing
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the end of my book on French art of [?] [?] you and I am now busy planning a fresh lecure tour in the United States. I hope to come over next Autumn and as I [?] to devote much of my [time?] to the West. I shall have to appeal to you for help & council as to what places to [?] for & who I should write to. For I mean to be my own agent! No
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more Ponds for me! I want to make a little money this time instead of Pond gobbling up his outrageous share, & only having [?] the work & little worry! So this time I am going to [torment?] my friends. And I know you will help me with your wide experience. As soon as my book is out which I hope will be in May I am going to
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prepare some new lectures. While I am down [in?] my own dear nature [?] near [Suersley?] during the summer. The moment [Thaw?] decided upon the exact shape they shall take. I shall have some [?] provided saying what subjects I propose to lecture on. All the lectures I now give are illustrated with excellent lantern sides a very much simple method of [?] pictures. So dear Mrs. Sewall will you help me & tell me to whom I should [deed?] them? I want to get a footing at
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Minneapolis Ann Arbor Madison Wis Toledo Dayton Milwaukee
Cleveland is settled royally.
And any other places [within?] [?] reach of Cincinnati Indianapolis - Chicago now know my regular price for one lecture is $200. But I am quite open to offers if I can give several in the same district.
Since I last wrote to you I think I have been appointed a senior lecturer in art ? new extension - Oxford. And I think my best set of