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in the midst of it I kept at work. Later I got out a larger canvas on which I had made an attempt at this same sort of sky and pitched vigorously into that and before dark I got it so that it promised to make a picture. I was very tired after the days work as I had been on my feet and busy all day. After dinner I went around to the Brevoort and called on the Church's. Poor Mrs. Church looked very pale and ill. She has caught cold and seemed to me to look badly. Church thinks now he will start on the last day of January and stop over Sunday at Pass Christian. After I left there I went around to the Century where I met Nicoll and Yewell with whom I passed an hour. Sara wrote me in a letter I received today that our Question Club in Kingston are desirous that I should read my essay on Michael Angelo I wrote her today I would if I could find it. This I think is the anniversary of Maurices birth day.

Tuesday Jan. 22" 1889 
After breakfast I walked up to Geo. Smillies studio but he was not in then over to Thos. Morans for the second time and he was not in. I wanted to interest them in pushing Robt. Wilkinson for the Century - and when I came to my studio I wrote each of them a note. Have painted on my plains sunset picture. Mrs Pychowska and Edith Cook called. I had a letter from Sara in which she said she could not come down as Bowyer and Agnes had written they were coming there on Thursday. My picture from Joe Cornell for the Paris Exhibition came today and I sent Fred Nortons "Cliff" picture to hang in its place. Marion, Sedgwick and I played poker and about 10 oclock I went around to the Century for a little while

Wednesday 23" Have not painted today although I am most anxious to get at my sunset in the plains. Robt Wilkinson came in a little while in the forenoon and was greatly pleased with the little picture I painted for him for Mrs. Maurice. I went down to the Equitable and lunched with him and Julia and Mr and Mrs. Boardman in the ladies room of the lawyers club in the upper part of the building Mrs. Boardman was bright and pleasant and we had a nice lunch. Afterward we went up on the roof of the building. It is a wonderful structure and has a colony within it as large as a small town

Thursday 24. Went to see Lang this morning about some caricatures Dailey made a long time ago nearly 40 years of a horseback ride he and Lang Kensett, Rossiter and Hicks took up to McCombs dam and which he gave to or left with some lady friend who has since died. Now some of the heirs propose to publish these for money. Mrs Darley asked me to see Hicks and Lang to assure them she had nothing to do with this publication except to try to get the pictures to distant heirs. I found Lang had no love for Darley who from all accounts used to pester him with his practical Jokes, but he finally said he didnt care whether they published them or not. His room has been burned out and it was neatly furnished and looked very nicely. He was shocked to hear of Ehningers sudden death on Tuesday. I saw Lawrence at the club this morning. He said Ben Knower was talking with him on    

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Times Jan. 23"
John W. Ehninger, N. A., died suddenly of apoplexy at Saratoga Springs yesterday in the sixty-second year of his age. He was born in New-York, and was a graduate of Columbia College. In 1847 he went to Paris, entering the studio of Couture and studying and painting for some years in the different art centres of the Continent. He was elected a full member of the National Academy in 1860. Among the better known of his works are "New-England Farmyard," "Yankee Peddler," "Love Me, Love My Horse," "The Foray," "Christ Healing the Sick," and "Death and the Gambler." To the National Academy he contributed in 1867 an "Autumnal Landscape," in 1871 "A Monk," in 1877 "Vintage in the Valtella, Italy," and in 1878 "Twilight from the Bridge of Pau, (Basses Pyrenees.") He has lived in Saratoga during the last 10 or 15 years, and his work has rarely been seen on the academy walls. He made many successful and popular wood engravings for various books, and at one time furnished cuts for an illustrated London journal. The funeral will take place Saturday at Saratoga Springs.
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The 'Century' is a local club 5/22 - 7 [[?]]s, too many to be marked for review, pls fill in the blanks All questions now resolved