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are chucked from Academy.  Dickinson tells him he thinks its because of the frame being gilded and & not gold.  Arrange to see D tomorrow at Babcocks at 2.  Stopped at noon to see Kimbel who took a subscription & said he's strong for the new paper.  Will see him Monday.  Wrote some letters then home.

Thursday 13 Feb stop at Am Art Assoc & see Kirby Jr. who says he wishes well and will help me any way he can with paper but their policy is no adv. except in dailys.  See Frank Lawton in the galleries & he takes an inch adv.  He agrees with me that the show is strong in Kensetts.  Two especially fine are a blackish wood p.[painting?] suggesting Blakelock mightily.  This is really superb Another very golden & red suggests early Homer Martin shows line of fall trees on river edge like the line bordering the Farmington R [road?] as it flows into the Connecticut.  Another upright woodland by Kansett is

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exquisite and a large marine by him has a marvelous gold sky and broad stretch of green water.  Meet Pere Du Bois there & call him to see the Kensett marine also introduce Du Bois to Lawton  Tell Du B about my new mag. and ask him [[strikethrough]] he [[/strikethrough]] who will write about him.  He says he doesnt know says "Why dont you do it yourself."  Tell him Davey will write Henri  Says "Why dont you have someone do it who doesn't like Henri."  I tell him I dont believe in that extreme  He says he doesn't believe in panders writing etc.  All very good  says "I'll give you a good notice on the first issue."  Stop at Higgins find him glum says [[Mrs. Sternee?]] marked his prices so abominably at Knoedlers that she killed his show - says those she thought would sell she put high & [[strikethrough]] those [[/strikethrough]] others low & it was one of  "others" that sold.  I told him how her low figures had killed the sale of his