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Wed Jan I7th. Terribly cold and Jim and I had to have talk before I got off to Jury. All the way to Budworths but I was not the last. Johannson sat next and Jonas Lie next . The others in rear and I could not see how they voted. Five hundred Pictures Mr Lewis there and very polite. I principally with Lydia E. Came home straight to lunch here .. Good rest .. sent tel to Mrs Tyson that I could not possibly go back to Boston to see the Maeterlinckor anything. Found nice note from A.P.A written here . They came here for a while.good. on Sunday. At eight to din Mrs Van's .Lovely party. The adorable Dunn but I did not sit by . A nice man named Welling. and Durand . Beatrix Jones and a Miss Segur. Great talk. also Dr Valentino by me. .. Could have stayed much later than I did. Wonderful Balk with Dunne after didn.. Thurs, Jan I8th. Up before day and off in eight to Phila. to the Jury meeting. 800[[strikethrough]] 0 [/strikethrough]] pictures and some impudently bad. About the same average but better than Bowton. Was glad I did not recognize. Phil Hale sat by Lydia and me Very amusing. Many good tales [[left margin pencil bracket]] Tom Perry asked Monet "If you paint the shadow of a green cabbage purple ,what color would you paint the shadow of a purple cabbage.?" Monet ans . "Look and see." When Remington went to Paris and was shown some of the crumply impressionists. he said "Why I have an old aunt in New Bedford who can KNIT better pictures than those.".. [[/left margin pencil bracket]] We had lunch at the Acad and Trask read a l ng letter from a daft champion of a crazy womans pictures. ..Mad me read poem by same. Much rambling aroun looking at the permanent pics with Chase and others. Jim came and young Haughton to see about Ins but I got off in time to take the three train Lydia there too. and we had good talk. .. Walked and trolleyed back and was pretty tired. Found enormous mail Lots of lette from the travellors. Terence .. so adorable and sat by me while I ate my sup here .. Talk and telling all about his farm biz..