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The very finest prints - Toned.  Grand!  Kakemono. Stolbein face.  I went wild.  Went to garden.  Delicious Dutch cigar.  Tea.  Mr. Draper very nice.  Gave us points about Warwick, Stratford, Coventry and Stoneleigh.  Lovely English garden, bower and flat green.  People charmed.  Good-byes, but in asking about cigar Mr. Brangwyn got showing us pottery again-great.  Persian bowl.  Photographs of M. M. A. Warm good-bye.  Left house enthusiastic and happy.  Mr. Chase's find (Holland) still life.  The May drawing.  But the Japanese things!  Home.  Shared etc.  And went over the way "to take dinner with Doctor and Mrs. Smith".  Very nice English people,-received our household kindly and took us out to garden.  Saw weeping-ash bower.  Talked - supper (welcome) - talked.  Then music.  Good bye and home, talking religion.

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July 25

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Went to studio for last crit.  Fine talk by Mr. Chase-splendid. Still-life; his view of it "for one thing, to make such as you [[underlined]] see [[/underlined]] it better.  The first of the master in Rembrandt's "Self".  Students and how he fells toward them.  Academism and queers.  (I tried to do an early sketch but had little time and rain).  Few good crits-the work did not deserve them.  Betts very well spoken to for portraits of Shuler, Dick & Schamberg.  Miss Heustis not good this time.  My work should have more care in its carelessness-will never be the pretty kind of thing (over this I felt good).  Selling paint.  Shuler collecting for Chase presentation-some very eager, some much the opposite.  After lunch, the three of went to Lee's, Sato's and Yamanaka's after a present (& to Larkin's).  Much