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[[strikethrough]] SUNDAY, MAY 31, 1936 [[/strikethrough]] 152nd Day Whitsunday (Pentecost) 214 Days to come cont. S.S. Wash - & the [[strikethrough]] trees get that tired summer look [[/strikethrough]] leaves on the trees look tired & pale before one has realized it is spring. Well - I will soon see what spring is like in N.Y. - except that one never knows what the weather or seasons are there. N.Y. [[strikethrough]] MONDAY, JUNE 1, 1936 [[/strikethrough]] April 10 153rd Day Monday in Whitsun Week 213 Days to come A hurried hectic line to say I got a very loving letter from Kenneth today which made me extremely happy, & tonight I have just come home from a cocktail-dinner party at the Albert Stewarts. Paul Manship came straight over to talk to me, but left the party early. Everyone was nice to me - Hal Erskine, & a great friend of theirs, a fisherman, who tried to find out why I didn't seem like a N.Y. girl. Stewart looked tired - but has just finished the huge Kansas City job, & Mrs S was lovely to everyone & most amusing, & a Mr & Mrs Myer (who was an old girl of Stewarts) were attractive. All the Manships were there (I strikethrough]] love [[/strikethrough]] like Shu Shu) & we went down to Paul's studio - which was most impressive, but I could only feel reminded of what a great artist he is, with such gigantic conceptions & knowledge of workmanship, & of that thrill I got three years ago when I had just met Stewart - & Manship took me to his studio late that night. This was the kind of evening that would have intoxicated me two years ago, but