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he says Lever is a queer cus "He's very nervous goes all to pieces if anyone comes in while he's working. Hear Miss Horne's voice as I go into Vals ante room to rest a bit. Nordell comes to the door outside but doesn't come in. Before he started he came in to see Vall most every day, but he plays the game this way. [[scribble]] Val is tired at 5.45 & begins to close. A beautiful young lady comes to door & Val says he's closing but asks her in - She says something about being Mrs Davey but I don't quite understand as I didn't know Davey was married. She flits around & then out As Val closes I go down to see Davey & find the beautiful lady there He introduces his wife. She's pretty small cherry red French mouth Sometimes as she [[strikethrough]] [[?]] [[/strikethough]] talks she looks Jewish. Maybe not. She [[strikethrough]] says [[/strikethrough]] speaks of my article. Davey had studiously not mentioned it before but now his wife has broken the ice he digs in to a big discussion of it. I say "Did you like what I said O about your husband?" Well yes but I liked the first part better. Then Davey said "What you said about me was all right, but I didn't like the proportion of it." Goes on at length to say that he thought he should have been given more prominence & more importance. I tell him I had a certain literary scheme running that all the articles had to fit. [[end page]] [[start page]] 85 He grows warmly disputatious[[guess]], but good naturedly so. Says "I liked what you I said about Sloan & I think you were right I liked what you said about the war but I don't think it's true. Sloan showed it to me I didn't see it (a pose pose) but Sloan or somebody showed it to me and I liked the first part but I thought you sort of fell down at the end." I tell him I deliberately made it perfunctory at the end & conventional cause I wanted to mention everybody. Mrs Davey says "You're kind." Then I explain how it is that writers continually snub certain exhibitions & how it seems the due of each - to all dont be. mentioned. Davey then launches into big Theories and tries hard to make himself appear [[strikethrough]] at [[/strikethrough]] as at odds with yet persisting in agreeing generally I ask Mrs D if D has painted her He says several attempts but as yet nothing She [[strikethrough]] sh [[/strikethrough]] says Bellows has painted her in white 1/2 length But D says he doesn't like it. Mrs D says she likes my head of Carol and the "Widow" also. Ask her if she likes Luks Says yes but doesn't think hes too overtopping. Takes a dig in Du Bois Agency as to Sloan says "John is a true artist I say "etcher' but not [[?]] as a painter to place of Luks. "She