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Saturday 8 Mar.  stop to see Dan who has article on "Expressionists" ready.  also has replies from Sperling of [[Kleu Papers?]] & Arnold Seligman.  Over to Brooklyn back to Knoedlers.  Find Gerrity talking to Hayley Lever.  Gerrity says he'll give me definite idea Monday morning of adv.  Take Lever upstairs to see Sherman's ports.  Mrs. Sherman comes in.  I sit in one of the big high backed striped velvet chairs  She drops in another across the room and waves Lever to another in a corner  Mrs S says [[strikethrough]] I'd [[/strikethrough]] "I'm awfully interested in what [[strikethrough]] I'd [[/strikethrough]] I've heard of your paper.  Asks me if I'm in on 100 for Paris.  Lever says he is.  I say "I've written too much."  Mrs S says she can understand well how it might make a difference.

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I ask her to interest her husband in the paper  She promises to & also suggests that her [[fam?]] will adv. & says she'll [[strikethrough]] work [[/strikethrough]] put in a word or two "rather." Take Lever out to Painter Gravers show. Find Steiner & Higgins & Jerome Meyers.  
Higgins says he's sold [strikethrough]] 100 [[/strikethrough]] 11 etchings today. Good. Geo Elmer Browne there too very thin from influenza. Back to see Carol & babies to give them some money.  Then up to Dickinsons  Miss Fulcher in & Mountfort.  D laughs about Miss Cary's notes on "Expressionists" in "Times." & Du Bois in "Post." D remarks Du Bois reference to my having given titles to both Eclectics & Exps but I tell D Hubbell was responsible for Eclectics.  Mountfort sings bits of Creation & Dickinsons hums a bit of "The Heavens are Telling."  Get talking about Haydn & Dickinson remarks "Britton doesn't think much of Haydn do you Mr B."  Montfort mentions Straus "Tod" & I sing the big coda theme  Miss Fulcher gets onto subject of International Nelson and the price of "write ups" in the "Studio."  

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First page transcribed. Lots of issues making out names. Will come back to this once have read transcriptions on earlier pages and become more familiar with handwriting. Top part of left page left blank, presumably for an entry for March 7.--thomasc Here is a link to info on George Elmer Browne: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Elmer_Browne