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[[strikethrough]] Monday Feb 29. [[/strikethrough]] 
                    
Tuesday Feb. 29, 1876

Wrote a note to Dr. Holland and he came to see me today. I had a talk with him regarding the statement about the Academy in the Scribner for March and told him it was all wrong. He said Gilden wrote it and showed it to him before it was printed and he had misgivings about him and asked him if he was sure and he said he could not be mistaken. He was glad I called his attention to it and asked me if I would talk with Mr. Gilden if he would like to talk with me about it. I told him certainly I would. I have got them in a tight corner and I don't see how they are to escape decently without retracting. After he had gone Wood one of the school committee came in and he was sorry I had not invited him to come and visit the schools, so I immediately wrote him a note to invite him to come there tomorrow evening. Barry Gray called with Mr. Driver of Elmira who named Lucy Braun of Clinton one of Gertrudes school friends. She is coming to town while her husband is here and I have invited them to come to see us and shall dine them or show them some attention. I think now the Wilson picture is done and have written to Silleck to take it up there tomorrow. I worked on the sky today. Wrote to Laura Tomkins and to Gertrude.

Wednesday March 1. 1876.  Received a note from Dr Holland today saying he was too tired to go to the schools this evening. Walked up to Eastman Johnsons morning. He is at work on his husking picture and by keeping him spurred up I hope he will get it ready for the Academy. He walked down with me and borrowed some studies of chickens to put in it. Sent my Wilson picture home today. Received a queer letter from S. A. Coale of St. Louis for whom I painted a small picture a year ago begging me as a member of the Centennial Selection Committee to vote against all pictures by St. Louis artists as entirely unworthy a place in the Exposition. Attended a committee meeting at the Centennial rooms. Answered Mr. Coales letter.
 
Thursday 2. Mr. Morrill of Minneapolis who bought a picture off me two or three years called on me. Attended a meeting of the Trustees of the Century. The propriety of refusing more than $15. credit at the bar was a subject