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. howls at this "Oh-o & her pretty red mouth her cherry mouth o's o's and pouts and her black eyes snap - yet she smiles.  Orders Davey with the end of her parasol to get his paint pans put away. & get ready to go home.  I walk out with them  They ask me to call & point out the house over the cove.  I go up to my studio Then over to Mrs Tayler  She introducing Mr Kenney of Boston Globe who says he's President of Trustees of Boston Public Library. & director on board of Museum of Fine Arts Says Sargent used to come into his office in Library when he (Sargent) was doing his retouching on the Library decorations and - admire Copleys Ch I composition  Mr K says he's very interested in preserving his old [[strikethrough]] [[?]] [[/strikethrough]] colonial stuff.  Says he's interested in my book in Coply. and why not indeed.  Says Phillpott is doing now. mostly official stuff.  Asks me to call & see Miss K as he has the house Duveneck had last year.  Says he saw Dick Brooks last week when was here.  Says he knows Barnard well and that he & Barnard called on Rodin while the bust of T.F.Ryan was in Rodin's Studio.  Says Rodin thought a good deal of Barnards Stuff.  Mr K tells me that the figures by Pratt in front of Library were down [[strikethrough]] art [[/strikethrough]]by accident.  Says Lib. men wanted to take away blocks which were
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in front so many years seemingly without purpose.  Kenny says St Gaudens tried to conceive something to go on them but couldn't though they were put there by the architect Stanford White to hold some [[strikethrough]] [[?]] [[/strikethrough]] sculpture.  Finally [[goes?]] one day Pratt came in with a design on his own initiative and that was how they came to be.  Kenny says he paid 35,000 for them.  K says he'll head my article in the Transcript.  Asks me to call, introduces one of his 5 daughters eldest of whom is painter.  Hope K can give me chance to write something for the paper beastly paper.  [[?]] needs for me here certainly
Sunday.  While I'm writing this setting down outside a Anderson Studio Snell comes along with two women who want to see the show  a Miss von Snell. is up stairs & says A isnt open but finally lets them in  Snell comes over to talk with me about Ryder  Says Satushbly owned a picture of her which Ryder [[strikethrough]] [[?]] [[/strikethrough]] would never let go.  Strange man.  To house & let Carol go down to the shore  While I pick berries with the [little ones Carol says she met Mrs. Noris get [[?]] at our show. 
Monday  C nothing in the mail but vegetables parcel post from Furyk.  Stay at the Von Shalti while Val goes out. Miss Von Shalti shows me her portrait  She has just plastered mess of paint over the head of Miss Nielson.  Tell her to begin a new canvas & keep the one figure in the