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from Raniger informing me that my picture of the "Danger Signal" was rejected at the Royal Academy, a disappointment certainly but one for which I was not unprepared. Disasters come in groups. No answer to note to Mr. Tuckerman. I think he never received it and Whittredge thinks he has gone to Europe.

[[strikethrough]] Thursday [[/strikethrough]] Wednesday May 21. 1873. Eastman Johnson came in this morning and saw the picture in the frame which I am going to send to Mr. Morrill, St. Anthony Minn. It is to go tomorrow and I have attended to having it boxed by Welmurt. I received a kind note from Mr. Lucius Tuckerman who was out of town when I wrote him. He did not succeed in getting his friend to buy my picture but said he should not cease trying. I have written to Mr. Raniger to offer my "Danger Signal" to the Dudley Gallery when it opens for sale for £100 and to sell the October Snow Squall for £75 if he can and if they are not sold when the Dudley closes to send them home to me.

[[left margin]] Letter to Raniger & to Blackburn [[/left margin]]

I also wrote to Mr. Henry Blackburn asking him to go and see my pictures at Ranigers if it would not be too much trouble, thinking as he was interested in my pictures perhaps he might call attention to them. I also wrote Raniger not to send my pictures to me before November and not until he heard from me. Pinchot called this afternoon having lately come from Paris where he left his family. He wants to get settled at home again. Says Boughton is flourishing finely. His reputation is increasing, his prices also and his picture this year in the Royal Academy is better hung than any other of his have been before and that he sold it for more than he got for his three pictures which Mr. Jessup owns. Think of my condition compared to his. A reputation in England is valuable while here it is worth nothing. Our people having no deep seated love of art are fickle and take up and abandon their favorites [[strikethrough]] with [[/strikethrough]] in mere caprice. We who are living and working today are the pioneers and I hope and believe that those who come after us, who are strong and original men will have a better time. Mr. Blackburn told Vaux and Stoddard also that he considers me the best and most original landscape painter

Transcription Notes:
Danger Signal -- one of McEntee's paintings; Whittredge = one of McEntee's friends; Lucius Tuckerman -- VP of the Met; James Pinchot = was a friend/patron;