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I also went to see Ortgies about a day for my sale next year. He thinks of running further up town in what he considers a more favorable location and which we decided upon some time between Feb 1 and March 10" it was left open contingent upon his removal when he will confer with me. I went to the communal meeting of the Academy which was a full and harmonious one. J. Francis Murphy was elected an academician and Walter Palmer, Edwin Reashfield, Freer, Shulaw and [[blank space]] were elected associates. Mr. Huntington and all the old officers were reelected with two new members of the Council, F. S. Church and S. J. Guy. The dinner was well attended and I among others was called upon to say something upon the method of study from nature. Eastman came over to where I sat during the meeting and wanted to know what was the matter with me that I treated him so coldly. I told him there was a great deal the matter and he ought to know what was the cause, as I think he did well enough. He tried to explain that he was not responsible for the hanging of my pictures, but I told him I held him so, that he had not come up to my conception of a friend and an academician and that I was deeply aggrieved by the indignity he suffered the hanging committee to put upon me. He said he supposed I would hate him henceforth but I told him my feeling was not of hatred but of disappointment and sorrow, that I would have left the hanging committee before I would have allowed him to be so treated. He was very troubled as I meant he should be and asked what he could do. I told him nothing he could do or say would change my view of it. The time was past for that. He had intended to stay to dinner but he and Hall had an interview and he did not stay to dinner but went away feeling that he had alienated two friends. I told him also that this was not the first time he had shown a lack of courage in standing up for his friend and called his attention to his weak course regarding the purchase of my picture by the Union League Club. I came to my room troubled and worried but not at all regretting any thing I had said to him. Selstedt paid me $325 for my picture sold to the Buffalo academy.

Thursday 12" May 1887 When I came to my room after breakfast I found that one of the glass shelves in my china case had again fallen and broken a number of things among them a tall vase of Gertrude's, a Bohemian glass Mrs. Taylor gave me, one of the cups of the Sevres sett oscar gave Gertrude, a Venetian cup and several champagne glasses. It made me sad to see the havoc among these treasures of my dear Gertrude. I cleaned out the debris and then mended the cups as well as I could with white lead and set them away to harden during the summer. Mary wants Marion to go to Rondout with me and I wrote Sara she could come. Clarke did not come as he promised to to look at my sketches. I do not propose to put myself under any obligation to him and I think he would like to put me in such an attitude, so perhaps it is as well. I wrote Mr. Linsley that I had repaired his picture and would probably send it tomorrow. Am gradually packing up to leave on Saturday and with a sad feeling of defeat and not knowing what the future has in store for me. I am very troubled and unhappy. Called at Fred Nortons but found no 

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"Ortgies & Co" were the curator of McEntee's art ---------- Reopened for Editing 2023-05-16 01:11:17