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1 Under date of Feby 8th Mrs Thompson writes - "This morning we went to the Frick's house and saw the most beautiful collection of pictures and other works of art I have ever seen in this country. The house at 70th St. is a perfect beauty and the Velasquez, Van Dyck, Rembrandt, Frans Hals, Rubens, Turner, Vermeer, Hogarth, Sir Joshua Reynolds, Gainsborough portraits and pictures, to mention a few names, are beyond belief. There was an original Michelangelo bronze also a Benvenuto Cellini and such Japanese and Chinese and French vases as I never saw. Then the ____! room is in place and much more beautiful than it was in the Metropolitan. The house, one of Hasting's (of Hastings + Carrère) is a ?? and these rooms are lovely in themselves. It was indeed a great treat but all too short."