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received from Mr. Hurlbert. Paid my rent to Nov. 1, and a tailors bill of nearly a hundred dollars. Mr. & Mrs. Bachelder lunched with us and we asked Gifford down also. Looking at my Cape Ann picture curiously enough they spoke of having been there last summer and speaking more particularly of it I remembered very well being there and produced a sketch in which I painted their carriage while they were roasting some clams at a fire. We were so near each other and yet so entirely unconscious of it. To my great surprise Joe Tomkins came in this afternoon. He is only here for a day and goes back tonight.

Sunday Feb 23" Friday it snowed all day and towards evening turned to rain. Mr. Williams of Williams & Everett came in and looked at my pictures. I saw that he would buy something if I would sell cheaply and so I proposed to him to let him have some of my smaller pictures at prices which would enable him to make something on them. The result was that I sold him a little autumn "Hussey Hill" 12 x 20 for which I ask 300, for $200 including frame, and the study for my Sea from Shore same size for $175 agreeing to exchange the latter if he cannot sell it after a reasonable time. I think it would be a good thing for me if the dealers would take hold of my pictures and to get them to do it they must make money on them. I had a cold which I had nearly cured but I went to Dr Bellow's last reception and think added to it.- Yesterday being Washington's birth day was a holiday and I had a number of visits. Hamilton came in with his wife to tell me I made a great mistake in not allowing him to make me an offer the last time he was here. That he was prepared to offer me within $40 of my price but that I was so decided that he went and spent the money for a picture of Eastman Johnson, the Scissors Grinder. I could only say I had not changed my mind and that he could not have been very much in want of my picture. Shortly after he went Mr. Paskin came with his wife to see my "Sea from Shore" which he seems to like very much. Then came Mr. Skidmore, 

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