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and to Pokeepsie first. I began another small picture. Miss Edith Thomas and her sister came to see me today. They are both very timid but I set them at their ease and they had a pleasant call. This evening I called on Mrs. James B. Johnston who wrote me a note a few days ago and asked me to come and see them before they sailed for Europe on the 28". The house was very warm. I dont see how people can live in such hot houses. Mrs Johnson said she thought the house very warm.

Thursday Apl. 19" 1888. I think this is the aniiverary of the firing upon the Massachusetts troops in Baltimore. Several distinguished men have died within a few days. Matthew Arnold, whose last utterance was a severe criticism upon America, Roscoe Conkling who evidently died from the effects of his perilous walk up town during the Blizzard, Dr. Agnew and J. R. G. Hasard Musical critic of the Tribune upon whom Winter has a very appreciative paper in the Tribune this morning.- I received a note from Mrs. Dr. Lord inviting me to come down to their house on Friday evening to pass the night. She lives with her daughter Mrs. Mc[[?]] at Tompkinsville Station Island. I wrote her a note from the Century this morning and was obliged to decline as I am going to Pokeepsie tomorrow. The prizes were noted yesterday at the Academy as follows. I did not go. The annual meeting of the Academy was held this afternoon the largest and one of the most interesting ones ever held. The result was entirely satisfactory to me with the exception of unwise custom of reconsidering votes upon defeated candidates for Academicians and associates. To my mind this is an exhibition of vacillation of purpose entirely undignified and calculated subject us to severe criticism. Besides it is unfair. A candidate is defeated, a friend gets up and appeals for him and one cannot oppose him without becoming the enemy not only of the candidate, but of his friends also. Chase was defeated by five votes, Millet spoke for him as did Ward, moved a recommendation and he was elected by a good majority. I voted against him on personal grounds. He is artist enough but his hostility to the Academy and the older artists I am in favor of disciplining him for. The dinner was well served as usual by Piccard, there were songs by Brown, Cranch, and Yenell a letter talking by Millet, Weir & others, a recitation by Selstedt and we broke up at 11, everything having been accomplished in good feeling, and with proper decorum. The Academy is evidently becoming a power. 

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PRIZES FOR ACADEMY EXHIBITORS.
The exhibitors at the National Academy met yesterday afternoon to award by ballot the various prizes annually offered to the best pictures fulfilling the required conditions. The Clarke prize of $300 for the best figure composition went to H. Siddons Mowbray for the picture entitled " Evening Breeze" and numbered 433 in the catalogue. The Hallgarten prizes of $300, $200 and $100, offered to artists under thirty-five years, were awarded to George de F. Brush for " The Sculptor and the King," No. 222; H. R. Poore for " Fox hounds,' No 434; and Charles C. Curran for " A Breezy Day," No. 448. The Norman W. Dodge prize, offered for the best painting by a woman, was won by Amanda Brewster Sewell for her Portrait, No. 286.
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ACADEMY OF DESIGN OFFICERS.

THE COUNCIL, HANGING COMMITTEE, ACADEMICIANS AND ASSOCIATES CHOSEN.
The National Academy of Design met yesterday afternoon, with the president, Daniel Huntington, in the chair. There were about sixty members present. The following officers were elected: Council-Daniel Huntington, president; T. W. Wood, vice-president; T. Addison Richards, corresponding secretary; H. W. Robbins, recording secretary; Alfred Jones, treasurer; Frederick Dielman, R. Swain Gifford, Seymour J. Guy, F. S. Church, J. Q. A. Ward, and James M. Hart. Hanging Committee-Charles H. Miller, F. D. Millet, Thomes Moran, J. Francis Murphy, and J. C. Nicoll.

The following artists were chosen members and associates of the academy: Academicians, E. H. Blashfield, F. W. Dewing and Walter Shirlaw; associates, George D. F. Brush, Charles C. Curran, W. H. Low, H. Siddons Mowbray, H. R. Poore, Augustus St. Gaudens, Olin L. Warner, Robert Blum, William M. Chase, and Robert C. Minor. The business meeting was followed by a dinner.
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Friday 20"  Rained in the morning. I went up to Pokeepsie by the 3.30 train Hudson River Road. It was cool and windy when I arrived there. Sara was at the Wilkinsons, where she arrived the evening before after innumerable delays. She had found Nannie greatly improved, so much so that it was thought she might be able to come home in June. Her will was very satisfactory. We spent a pleasant 

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