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has reached the lowest depths, but praises Eastman Johnson and a few others, among them me, as excellent in my limited sphere. I went to the Academy this morning to get a look at the pictures but as usual I met people who kept me from doing as I wished I met Mr. Olyphant there. He told me they buried Kensett in Greenwood yesterday. He was placed in a vault in the city at his death. Mr. Olyphant was looking for my pictures when I saw him (the Sea from Shore) some one had directed his attention to it. He remarked to me before he left that he had no more room for pictures. I cant quite understand why he should not have a representative picture by me, since he has pictures by most of the artists. 

Tuesday April 22, 1873 - Avery had a private view of all of this pictures on Wednesday evening last at the gallery 625 Broadway where has sent them for private sale while he makes some alterations in his house. He asked me to send a picture and I let him have my "Kaatskill woods" It was a stormy evening but there were a good many people there. John Taylor Johnston was there and asked me to be sure to come to his reception on Wednesday. I said 'perhaps so" for I did not intend to go, as we came away Avery told me the two people had asked him the price of my picture. Thursday I spent at Eastman Johnsons studio painting in the foreground of his "Sap Gathers". It was a dismal rainy day, the room got cold and I took cold. We had a delightful day together however and I think enjoyed ourselves much better than if we had gone to John Taylor Johnstons. We each have a grievance with Mr. Johnston. I will do him a justice to believe he did not intentionally mean to wound either of us, but I hold it part of my duty to let him know that all the American Artists