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Murphy if he knows Vose & he says "Yes, Weir says to me the other night at the Lotus Club "Did you ever get a letter from Vose" he says "he's funny, he's dictatorial." Then Murphy says [[strikethrough]] [[ther?]] [[/strikethrough]] "Vose writes to me and tells me what kind of trees to paint he's very funny. I mention Bunce & Murphy beams as he recalls him. Murphy says Granville Smith spoke of me over at Salmagundi other night and says something about Smith and a jury that I don't quite understand. He talks fast and says "These dealers are queer chaps. They don't know what to make of me They say I don't care for money. Says Gerrity & Heuschel passed a picture of his a Lotus Club without a word but later came to his studio & tried to buy it. M says "Kirby's the boy he's done more for me" than anybody. [[end Page]] [start Page]] 47 Says "Now they all want to buy pictures from me. but when I wanted to sell them and needed to nobody wanted them." M. says he thinks the Montross sale at AAA will be a good one says he sold Montross 2 ps for it. We walk out as far as Broadway Murphy talking incessantly & calling me "Britton" and seeming to know all about what is done in "Art News". M says Townsend was mixed up in Stanford White case just enough to find it convenient to go to Europe during the trial. M asks me to come up & see him at the studio some afternoon & have a smoke. Walk up to see Frank Rehn in his new gallery. Meet Groll there who has a fine sky picture there I tell Rehn I'd like to reproduce it. Groll pleased Says he knows a man who'll write about him. Rehn shows me every thing in his private gallery a lot of his fathers things & I suggest a memorial
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Here is a link to info on the Salmagundi Art Club: http://www.salmagundi.org/history.htm
Here is a link to Albert Lorey Groll: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Lorey_Groll