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and brother Charlie comes in. Maurice as delightful as ever Smiles & smiles & says "Good show - better than the last" Charlie B beams Man Friday stands all about drinking in all I say. A school teacher comes in & after I [[strikethrough]] encurag [[/strikethrough]] encourage her to talk Says the show is very fine Saw Greggs attack. and thinks it a joke Talks in [[makes?]] a speech Says she got away from her school to see it and is delighted. Good. The young girl comes back and I tell her she reminds me of Elizabeth Spencers. She smiles, really is quite lovely. I ask her to come in again She says "I will if you'll be here." Friday 14 [[strikethrough]] April [[/strikethrough]] March Snow. fine letter from Gernhardt and $5 to the good cause of art and the paper. Feel quite depressed however not hearing from Knoedler. Almost decide to come out with one sheet & a cover to pay respects to these slow moving dealers. Stop over to see Don who has done nothing but scout for some news that I cant use. Brooklyn write a little but find it cold and cant stay. Air very cold and penetrating [[into?]]. Shivery Meet Ed [[Mahon?]] in Grand Central and arrange to call on [[end page]] [[start page]] 91 him Sunday 2:30 Trotta came in to see the show at Babcocks says "Dickinson told me about your portrait of him and I came to see it." We go in after I introduced Trotta as the man who is painting Pres Wilson in commissions from Italians. Trotta says he likes my head of Dickinson very much. Keeps saying so. Doesn't look at much else. Says he's getting up a show at Flushing of 45 biggest Americans and wants my port of Dickinson. Stop up to see D after Trotta goes inviting me out to see him. Find Dickinson better. of his cold looking nearly right again. Says he's willing to move the Expressionist show if [[strikethrough]] he [[/strikethrough]] it doesn't cost anything. D says the Captain painted him today We go in to see it I tell D it isn't like him, though its fluent and has some good color in it. I tell him to give the Cap fits on it. He says "What's the use the Cap'll never do anything anyway." Says this after telling me the thing is "darn good." I say "Give him a chance, anyway." Saturday 15 Snow over to Brooklyn call at Dr H's office & Nan comes in also Dr Hs sister & her husband Get talking about Irish