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Wednesday January 30" 1884. Rainy day. Worked rather deliberately on my woods picture. Called on Genl & Mrs. Pitcher at the Gilray house but they were not in. Went to the Century and wrote to Sara. Perry is in straits for money for the Art Museum and has to borrow. I am afraid we will have to abandon it. If we do I will never again enter into any plan in which the cooperation of the contacts is essential to success. As a body they seem selfish and indifferent. Think of Wm Hurt not willing to send a picture to our gallery because he is not permitted to have a glass over it.

Thursday 31". Damp and this morning an almost impenetrable fog. I had many interruptions and did not paint much. Calvert came to see my studio. Later Eastman Johnson came and I showed them to him. He talked of the Art Union. He feels apprehensive about it as I do. Perry has applied to him for money to mill the wood. I told him if I had money I would put it in. We both think this a critical period and that if we can only get going it will be successful. Eastman pleaded inability and ineptness to attend to these public matters connected with art but I plainly told him he had duties in that direction which he could not evade and that his advice and counsel were very valuable. Went to the Century in the evening. Meeting of the Trustees at which only five were present. Only routine business transpired.

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THERE WAS something tender and touching in MR. CHOATE'S call upon CLARENCE COOK yesterday in the DI CESNOLA case. "Where, oh, where," exclaimed the lawyer, "is the false and fleeting CLARENCE?" CLARENCE, it may interest the explorers in the DI CESNOLA case to know, was the author of an anti-CESNOLA pamphlet. He lived in the early part of the case and tradition says he was a newspaper man. There are no records of him in the FEUARDENT-DI CESNOLA court dynasty, and it is supposed that he died after writing the pamphlet.
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Friday Feb. 1" 1884.
Casilian came in a little while just as my Studies were going away to the Century. He spoke very encouragingly of my "Yellow Woods". Thought it an interesting subject and spoke of its excellent color, of which I have had my doubts. He suggested more depth of shadow across the middle of the picture which accorded with my own feelings. Went up to the Century at 1 o clock and had my studies of last year 37 in number hung on the screen on the East end of the large room up stairs. They just filled and after it was done we lighted the gas. They looked very well I considered. Painted a little afterwards. Calvert and I went to the Artists view of the Esyrt Color Society. A throng of young artists I did not know and only a few of the older artists. How these things change. I was much struck by the difference. The young men seem to me aggressive and lack modesty and many of their pictures are like them. A great array of bric a brac so that the galleries looked like a bazaar. The public like it. I can hardly say I do. It interferes with the seriousness of an art exhibition in my mind. Did not have any opportunity to look at the pictures critically. Came home early, took a bath and went to bed. Now that the Art Union Journal is being liberally distributed subscriptions are coming in. The weather is cold again

Saturday 2. At work on my large picture. At the Century in the evening. My studies seemed to excite considerable interest. I sold two of them to Mrs. Anchincloss one for 150, a large tree and rock along the brook at Kellys Corners, and a study on the Delaware

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