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AUGUST 9 Friday Letter from mother with one from Mary - Cleaned up boat & to studio, started painting of grasses. Arthur painting on boat, & making more drawings. I back to boat to cook lunch, Holly came & stayed all P.M. A to Huntington for Terre verte & a dipper. Holly & I to studio - showed her designs - and we talked names for some time. In evening I read in "Why we relax like human beings" which Holly brought. Sent her Poe books, transition & Scribners. [[end page]] [[start page] Saturday AUGUST 10 A got a chicken near by & corn tomatoes & beans at Edwards. I feeling indigestible & thunderstormish, read a while. A to Y.C. painting on next big abstraction. I over with lunch. I started to paint on grasses but it too miscellaneous - too many small things seen - no simple line. so scraped it out. Started in with a tube of Talen's green to pep me up. Got start on a letter thing I think.