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of the hanging & Jane does too although I can see that she enjoys her privilege of sole hangman too much to yield any of it.  They get tired at noon and I help Atwood who does the burden of shifting of heaving p's himself.  I tell him not to do too much lifting and as I go off he says "I thank you very much Mr Britton  you really are a brick."  Get down to P.O. to send Townsend my account & a lot of circulars too.
  Stopped a minute to see Val who says Anderson is in an awful frenzy because he's not in the show.  Val says Miss Neilson & Miss Von Schliy want to open their studio again when [[?]] on Vals.  and Miss Von S wants to have her double portrait ready and show it.  Meet Kronberg in Vals.  Val says Baker was raving because Atwood turned down poor Phil Adams after he's carted his picture down from Boston.  Poor Atwood he's much beset.  He had to let Miss Horne go as attendant, because she thought she should have a small

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commission on sales over her flat rate.  The girl who gave me the list this morning is probably the new attendant.  She's very pretty, but I doubt if she's so aggressive a saleslady as Miss Horne.  We'll see. Down at the centre see our old friend Packer Perkins of Rockport  little short stocky chap.  "gay" in white shoes & hat & linen trousers. 

    Copley immortal - Eternal.
Editor Herald
     Thank you for suggesting that my decision that Copley did not paint the [[Sigomund?]] portraits was responsible for the museum removing the [[strikethrough]] labl [[/strikethrough]] Copley tablets from the pictures & placing them [[strikethrough]] in the Pimbo[[guess]] [[/strikethrough]] 
away from the allulgence of the Copley room  I look now for similar action in the regard to
the "Jared Ingersoll" & the "Brattle".
    Your tribute to the late C H Hart I commend.  It may interest you to know that this iconoclast came forth generously when he first heard of my intention of making a book on Copley with much gratuitous information.  He was so kind about it that I was in with reluctance that I proceeded to upset