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   Mahonri Young & pitch right in to him about Dougherty & tell him to tell D he can go to the devil.  I also pitch it to Giff Beal but Young explains that Beal has had trouble  had a baby born with physical imperfection & was much distressed.  Poor chap.  Sorry. Well Young says that Dougherty is not like that, he is not  can't be here.  He was in [[blank space]].  Stop up to see Dickinson.  Find the Captain just going & Ds little blonde girl & her mother in the studio.  Portrait not in evidence.  Mountfort comes in & D brings out his portrait of me which he worked on last night without me.  Has put a heavy [[strikethrough]] collar [[/strikethrough]] ulster collar on me which does not do at all.  I tell him so.  We go out to eat & decide to ask Henri and [[Renicrick ?]] to show with us.  Also think of Nelson & Raymond Nielson who Dickinson says was the star pupil at the League when he was there.  Says he has lots of money is married & has children.  Went to the war & now no one knows where he is.  D agrees with me he has immense talent.  Says he is a cousin of one of the Belmonts.  Go over to Broadway to eat.  Back to the studio  I suggest some changes in my portrait and while I coach him he changes it.  Smiling all the time and saying no one else could ever tell him how to paint

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and get away with it.  Improves it so much it is fairly good in tone and not so bad in drawing but very unlike his regular stuff. Says he'll put it in the show if I want to let it.  Talk a long time about the group & then out for a drink. D says he'll call on Maurice Prendergast in the morning & Renwick.

     Tuesday 25 Feb  Out early over to Brooklyn Find Lily done for lesson.  voice. Nan in good mood.  Back to N.Y. Stop to see Griffin.  Find he has one p. for us.  Tells a good story about Bunce and Maurice Prendergasts visit to him at his sisters.  Griff says to me.  "Did you ever see a colder eye in your life than Mrs. Welch's (Bunces sister)"  I say "Or a colder face."  Griff agrees with me about New England.  Says he told Babcock when I was a young chap I was doing some of the best stuff in the country.  Say Charles Flagg wrote to him when he was in Paris in terrible distress over things I'd written about him.  Griff says he wanted him to answer me  Griff says he told Charlie I was giving him some great stuff. that he ought to jump in and make a controversy.  Griff agrees with me Charlies genre was very picturesque and interesting.  That he came very near