p.

Cappiani this afternoon and arranged
to take my first lesson on Friday morning
She is lovely - quite as I had pictured her
an essentially foreign woman with the
grand air and an impressive personality.
I believe we are going to get on famously.

We split on one rock, however, she was
quite annoyed that I persistently [record?]
all ideas of the stage; She says I do not
look at things from the right stand point.
But never fear, darling, I am proof
against all coaxings and pleadings when
you stand and beckon in the other direction

New York is lovely -- nothing compares

Say Darling, do you know
that picture of yours is terribly unsatisfactory.
It is a picture of an old school
friend of mine, not of my lover; I
want one of you now, since you have
loved me, with your curly hair, and
the love light in your eyes looking
straight forward at me. Well, sweet
heart, I must say good-night now.

With all my love --

(Ernestine)

That is what Madame persists in
calling me.

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