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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
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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