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article very much. They tell of meeting Sargent and like him.  Kronberg says Sargent is about as tall as I am and is quite fat as he is a big eater. Says he has a high model throne in his London studio  a high one. Says Tarbell used to paint out of a mirror  that is paint his subject by the reflection - crazy idea
Miss von Sckallay does same. crazy. Poor girl pretty sweet girl dear girl. I must see her in Boston  Kronbery who was a Chase pupil says Chase made a good deal of money. K also said he met Chase in Paris toward the end of his life and he held up his hand very high to shake hands with him and said "Well I must go back to my villa" - K says "that was all right with people who didn't know him but I was na old pupil of his and he should not have done that to me. It wasn't necessary. That was the trouble with Chase, he was always fooling himself, playing a game". K asks about Chase's port of Mahler & I tell him about the article I wrote on it last winter when it went into the Metropolitan. K says he's been asked to show about the country pastels with Hassam, Daving, and Henderson. Davey said today he was in the ocean swimming and 
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met Hassam in also and that Hassam had been in for more than an hour and the water was very cold.  Davey agrees generally with my idea of Hassam-but says he's [[strikethrough]] drawn [[/strikethrough]] done some still life of apples & things that are not bad really tell Davey about his atrocious lithographs. Davey is going home so we walk over the bar  Find Jane Peterson blocking up the road with her easel and her yellow sweater. Krowlay says Bourdonin has been in Gloucester  he met him at a tea at his old friend Jane Petersons. Davey says he has painted a portrait of Sloan and Sloan has it in his house. Davey stops at Sloans place and I go to Stevensons for some bread  Then home  weather quite fallish.
Wednesday Thursday 5 Sep. down early to Kronbergs to get my portrait of him. Take it over to Miss Olivers.  Find Theresa Bernstein fussing with the lock which would not open and Miss O inside. T asks me to push it in So I heave against the door and in it goes taking the lock and staple bodily away with a piece of the sash  T and Miss O. very much admiring of the portrait Mr. Brush comes and he says its a chef-d'oevre Mrs Larson comes and she raves too  Mr Brush says he may sit at 3 and I ask Miss Oliver