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Indian tepees, and have painted on it all day I think I have made a nice little picture but shall improve it. Church came in and sat for an hour. We talked Mexico. While he was here Julia Wilson came in to ask me to lunch at the Lawyers Club down town any day I would name, next week, to meet Mr & Mrs Boardman. I left the day to her. She went and saw Mr. Boardman and came back and named next Wednesday and wants me to ask Sara to come. It is growing very cold and I think of Sara up at home. I went around and called on the Bannings. They have had an experience since I saw them last. The last night Alice was there, last Monday Mrs Banning accidentally set fire to the lace curtains of their bed, a great rosewood structure of her mothers, and destroyed most of the contents of the room. The firemen were there and put the water upon it and put it out. The only wonder was that more was not destroyed. I went from there to the Century where I had a pleasant evening, mostly with Eastman Johnson and got to my room about 1 o clock. It had grown very cold. Sedgwick came to my studio about an hour before dinner and walked over with me. He is a dear, lovable boy and full of practical intelligence. 

Sunday Jan. 20" 1889- Very cold this morning- After breakfast I came to my room and spent the day until 4 o'clock doing many things as for instance making out a list of painting materials to take with me to Mexico, mending my trunk, marking my new valise, writing to Alice and to John Kraft for information for Ward about the State Game preserve in Ulster Co. Fred Norton came in for a while. He gave me permission to let Joe Cornell have his picture of the Cliff in place of the one he is going to loan me for the Paris Exposition. At 4 o'clock it had begun to snow in earnest. I walked over to the "Players" for a short stop before dinner. Saw Mr. Benedict there. I understood Booth was to be there today stopping on his way from Baltimore to Boston but I did not see or hear of him. I wrote a note there to Inness congratulating him that foreign art dealers should buy his pictures. After dinner I went around to the Century where I staid until 10 o'clock and then came to my room. It still snowing violently.

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MISS ROSALIE BOOTH'S FUNERAL.
BALTIMORE, Jan. 18.-Miss Rosalie Ann Booth, an elder sister of Mr. Edwin Booth, was buried to-day in Greenmount Cemetery, in the family plot, in which are the graves of Junius Brutus Booth and J. Wilkes Booth. Many persons congregated around the entrance gate, but the rule shutting out all except lot owners was enforced, and the curiosity seekers were shut out. A small crowd of lot owners gathered at a respectful distance and witnessed the ceremonies.
 
The Rev. Peregrine Wroth read the burial service of the Protestant Episcopal Church. Mrs. D. C. Anderson of New-York, at whose house Miss Booth had lived, who was Miss Booth's intimate personal friend, strewed the casket with Marechal Neil [[Niel]] roses. Mr. Booth and the others added flowers, and when the graves was covered it was crowned with a wreath of evergreen and smilax, the token of Mr. Lawrence Barrett.

Mr. Edwin Booth afterward visited the graves of his recently-deceased sister, the wife of John Sleeper Clarke, and of his other sister, Mrs. Susan Hyde, and decorated both with flowers.
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FRENCHMEN BUYING AMERICAN PICTURES.

A short time ago, when Benjamin Constant, the well-known French artist, was visiting the exhibition held in the Union League Club, he was greatly impressed with a painting by George Inness, whose studio is at No. 139 West Fifty-fifth-st. This interest led to a visit at the house of Thomas B. Clarke, No. 203 West Forty-fourth-st., who has a number of Mr. Inness's works, extending over a long period of his life. Further acquaintance with the American artist's landscapes served to deepen the impression already made upon the Frenchman, and increased his admiration and appreciation of Mr. Inness's artistic powers.

Accompanied by a representative of the firm of Bossand, Valedon & Co., whom he had informed of his discovery, Mr. Constant called upon Mr. Inness at his New-York studio, with a view to a possible purchase of some of his works. The visit ended with the sale of six or seven finished and unfinished paintings to the Paris representative, who was as complimentary as was Mr. Constant. The prices paid were high and will add a considerable sum to the artist's income. There was great jubilation in the neighboring studios over Mr. Inness's good fortune, since the purchase is a marked evidence of the growing appreciation of American art and American creative talent. Other artists, one of whom was seen by a reporter last evening, feel assured that it is the beginning of a more prosperous period for New-York artists. Mr. Inness is about sixty-three years old, having been born in Newburg. He received his principal art education in America, studying in Newark, supplementing this by travel in Europe and repeated visits to the galleries there.
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Monday 21" Spent the forenoon running around doing various errands. It was warm and the snow which fell last night was melting rapidly. When I came to my room the Express man was waiting with my picture from Sam Cuykendall which is going to the Paris Exposition. I had it carried to my room and went to work to open it which was a job, as Manterstock had done the boxing in a most substantial manner I got to work painting near noon. Worked on the sky of my little plains sunset picture with the "wickie-ups" and improved it Robbins came in while I was  

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