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and had a delightful evening with them. Our people had not heard of John Andrews promotion. Now we will look for them home any day now. 

Monday Apl. 5" 1886. It snowed again in the night but melted very soon. I came down in the 11.55 train. Met Romeyn on the ferry boat. He is going to live in Kingston this summer in the Pell place. Marion and I went to the Academy of Music to see the one act opera of the Marriage of Jeannette and the Ballet of Sylvia. It proved a success. We had the second row seats in the family circle and found it a perfectly comfortable place and very nice people all about. Ryer Haydock and his wife were there

Tuesday 6" A very disagreeable day of rain and wind. I worked on the figure in "Telling the Bees" but I cant get it to look like the study I sent Maurices photograph, a copy of the Daguerreotype Susan Chamberlain gave me, to her in a little velvet frame and wrote to her. Spent the evening at Marys until 9 o'clock when I came to my room It had ceased raining.

Wednesday 7. Fine morning. Went to the Ac
are a number of pictures sold but none
to the building found George Coale and his
a Maryland college waiting for me. Coale  
great difficulty. He told me he had 
lysis and that he never expected to 
I tried to cheer him but he feels the grav
vited Hubbard and me to dine with him 
Hotel tomorrow at 6. Shortly after he left 
for tomorrow came from Mrs. Lockwood 
bliged to decline. Vanderliss took away two 
he would keep one of them. They were "Over the Hill

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PARIS GOSSIP. 
ADMIRAL MAXSE - THE PRINCE OF WALES - THE ORLEANISTS.
(FROM THE REGULAR CORRESPONDENT OF THE TRIBUNE.)
PARIS, March 10.
Admiral F. Maxse, of England, who has been here for the past few days, and is about to make a tour of three months in the United States, whither he will sail on the 12th, is a man of the noblest ideals and truer than steel, since he is too active in mind and body ever to rust. Although he belongs by birth and breeding to the uppermost stratum of English society, and belongs to a profession in which aristocratic ideas prevail, he is a thorough Radical, was an intimate friend of John Stuart Mill and Louis Blane, and stands in that relation to Matthew Arnold, George Meredith and Clemenceau. His sympathies, however, are as broad as his intellectual perceptions are keen. His late brother, Sir Henry Maxse, was as much a Tory as the Admiral is a Radical. But their brotherly affection was never chilled by their divergence of political opinion ; and when one died about a year and a half ago the survivor was so deeply affected that without indulging in metaphor I may say the heavens seemed to him to be hung in black. He is now suffering from the effect on him of the recent illness and death of his mother Lady Elizabeth Maxse, to whom he was always a devoted son, and of whom he was the assiduous attendant when she was making a long and final struggle against the infirmities of old age. At first sight the dislike which Admiral Maxse expresses for so many English institutions and for the snobbish element in the English disposition might lead one to suppose he held his nation in small esteem. But he does not. He believes that there is no country in the world in which public opinion, when once roused, is so honest, generous and healthy as in England. There are points in the fox-hunting country Squire that command his admiration. " He is a cheerful, genial fellow," he says, " light-hearted, frank, and honestly tries to discharge his public and private duties."
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Thursday 8" Have been painting on the figure
I shall improve it. Not a soul comes here. 
my work is manifested I might as well 
pictures came home from Springfield a f
the other one is sold although I do not 
Hubbard and I dined with Geo. Coale and
Union Square hotel. We had a most elab
contrary to my expectation and I think 
Coale went to the Century on my card a
Weeks where I have not been in a long
daughter of Chas. Astor Bristed

Friday 9. Took a long walk after breakf
half way over the Brooklyn bridge and 
Worked on the "Bees" and made the face of the 
law Reids at 7.30 to meet Admiral Maxse of 
the dinner beside him, Genl. Cullom, Admiral Nicholson , Clarence Seward, a young Englishman whose name I forget, D. B. Mills, Mills Jr. John Jacob (or Wm. B.) Astor, Dr Fordyce Barker, Moncure D. Conway and myself. I sat at the end of the table next to Conway on my right and Genl. Cullom on my left with Admiral Maxse next him. The Military and the Naval men were the least warlike looking of any of the party. Genl. Cullom has a very peculiar m- p- a sort of repetition to fill up the pauses in his conversation. Dr. Barker and Conway were the most entertaining to me and I talked most with them. There was also a Mr. Dickinson  
  

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