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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;moreotherstuff, post: 26214, member: 56&quot;]I don&#039;t think it&#039;s a woman.&nbsp; Maybe a dandy.&nbsp; Maybe a French Dandy.&nbsp; If we are talking about the same Crane (American landscapist), he did spend time at an artist colony in France:&nbsp;&nbsp; Grez-sur-Loing.&nbsp; The Wikipedia source doesn&#039;t give dates, but I get the impression that period would have been before 1910, maybe before 1900, but if this was a letter to some acquaintance from that period....</p><p><br /></p><p>For a dedicated follower of fashion, that might have been the very image of an aesthete.&nbsp; Maybe it was meant as a portrait of a mutual acquaintance.</p><p><br /></p><p>The Mandeville address is currently a hotel, and may have been back then (can&#039;t find any history).&nbsp; Could have been a trip to London that involved some sort of reunion with following letters.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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