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As Irish pleased says I can take it up again He's very pleased. Go over to Vals she says word all Kimball, [[?]] Snell were in to see my head of K. Val says he told Snell I did it in 2 hours and S says "It looks it". Val says Miss Nielson said something about the off cheek I launch out with "who's Miss Nielson!" and get rather loud. Keep it up till Val & I go out Randall Davey comes after it from his place asks me for a match and says "What are you fellows fighting about? We go back to see what he's done. Val has to bolt so I stay & help Davey stretch a big 77 x 60 inch canvas says the stuff cost $14. Mrs Davey comes in in yellow & white & says he will paint Mrs D on big one & perhaps nude. I [[strikethrough]] as [[/strikethrough]] say put the baby down in the corner Mrs D says it would be cunning but he's too old he's 5. D talks a blue streak till I go. Meet Jane Peterson again painting on the bar besids her automobile She turns around as I approach and greets me most graciously I ask her if the people passing dont bother her and she says "Of course they do" I observe that her subject's now all in shadow while her canvas represents it in sunlight [[end page]] [[start page]] 101 I mention the upright composition She was doing the other night with the sun on the high white cottage and the rich green [[?]] rising aboves. She says she is doing that at high tide so she has to wait Friday in Boston find Thompson at Voses but RC not in. T. says they [[?]] sold Fuller's full length child girl with flowers and the sheep shearer T shows me a new Blakelock and a fine new Murphy. Go over to Bayleys find B in & he gives me 4 photos of Copleys after I give him complimentary circular for my book. Says he'll put it in the gallery and people will see it there. Tells about Hart and the lecture he (B) is asked to deliver in my Hist Soc on their early ps B reads me a bit of his lecture and laughs over his remarks on Reub. Peale who he's going to slam. Says Hart began at early age to gather autographs and in that way got a letter form Reub Peale in his old age also one from Sully. Bayley says he probably won't do an illustrated Copley book as his Dunlap was too much work Says he's going to declare Stuart the greatest American painter past in present. Bayley says he'll never sit for a portrait of himself again even to Sargent, who has painted