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I began a small picture of Gertrude asleep in a chair Sent my picture of the boy shaving to the Century but I do not think it was very much liked. I went round the gallery with Eastman Johnson and he passed by it without seeing it. It amused me because I mean to have the fun of making him believe it annoyed me. Painted all day on the little picture as I am sure of not being interrupted but did not succeed very well. The weather is simply dreadful. Thus far I do not remember a single day to [[?]] one out into the country but wind and dust and cold continually. Last night it was as cold as winter. Joe Tomkins was in a few minutes on Thursday on his return to Hillsboro'.

Monday Apl 6. 1874. Fred Horton and Annie dined with us. The Secretary of the Brooklyn Art Association called on me with De Haas to get me to promise to send something to the Brooklyn exhibition

Tuesday 7. Varnishing day at the Academy. I went up there about 11 o'clock. Naturally my first anxiety ordinarily would be for my own pictures but I confess I was most anxious at this critical stage of the Academy to see what the character of the exhibition was. I was glad to find it much above the average in fact a most interesting exhibition. My Cape Ann is in the large room in a good place. My "Wood Path" on the line in the west room. My "Deaus Rises" over another picture in the same room and looking very poorly. My "Solitaire" on which I most depended over another picture in the North Room. I feel that I have had a decided snub at the hands of the hanging committee David Johnson, Brandt and Irving who took good care to have all their pictures on the line. It has made me feel a little depressed but I try to be philosophical. Poor Weir was most shamefully treated and was utterly cast down. His picture is hung over another in a dark corner and as he is an Academician and had sent only this picture I regard it as a downright insult. Eastman Johnson came home with me. He too felt disagreeably as though he had been rather put off in by places although his pictures are all on the line neither of the three however being in the large room. Hubbard has three pictures on the line; Whittredge his large ones Gifford three, Church one the temple at Petra Beirstadt a dry uninteresting California woods in one of the best places in the large gallery. However it is a good exhibition and I hope it will be the beginning of a revival in Art. After dinner I went up to the Albemarle Hotel where Weir and his wife are stopping to get