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train, to attend Fullers dinner at the Union League club. He sent a coupé for Whittredge and me and sent us home in one. There were present Eastman Johnson, Robbins, Warren and Whittredge, Fuller & myself. Had a very long pleasant time until 11 o clock when we went into the gallery to look at the pictures. Mine was among them and looked well. Whittredge and I came down together and he came to my room and smoked a pipe. A sad letter from Mary Gifford from Atlantic City where she is with her father and in very poor health. Also a letter from Lucy.

Friday Apl. 13" 1883. The day was spent in running about and doing many little things which with constant interference took all my time. I do not seem able to get to painting and the days fly by without accomplishing anything. Whittredge came in and saw my Indian Summer which he thinks is now one of my best pictures. I want to sell it and then the summer will look more easy to me. He did not know my picture in the Academy was sold for $1000, and said I ought not to feel discouraged. That he could not get such prices and seemed to feel a little nettled that I could get more than he could for his pictures. Told me of his discouragements and said I was a great deal better off than he was. But we all think we have the hardest time. Conant came in and told me of his discouragements. We are all full of anxieties. Bishop Putnam called and I told him I would call on his wife this evening which I did. She looked very pretty. I saw her mother and her father Mr. Faulkner who went to school at Clinton when I did. He seemed grave and reserved but apparently glad to meet me. I wonder if I seem as old as he does. We talked of our school days and I stayed an hour and a half and then went to the Club a little while. Read a sharp but just criticism of the pictures of the Society of American Artists. I think our strictly American art will grow more into force if we get our Art Union fairly going. The people are getting tired of mere decoration and are beginning to look for something different, if not better. 

Saturday 14. Went home by 3.30 train. Sara had taken Mrs. Davis, who has been sick, to her Aunt Smiths and so I presume she will no longer be of our family. I regret it in some particulars as I regret all changes, but Sara is unable to assume any more responsibility and so the change had to be made.