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in time of intermission of what [[strikethrough]] of [[/strikethrough]] I thought of Doing in buying Brown's farm, so Do John you ought to have it it will suit you and I will help you I said I would be glad to have it can you not come & stay over night he said he would so he cam and in the morn he went to see the old folks he the Sqr. said he would be gladd to have the money you owe me and I do not see but I must have it Brown said he could not pay till he sold his farm Britton said you can sel it today if you wish to John Davidson he'll buy it so they sent for me & we began & finished writings and all were concluded before dark. x x Wed Thurs Fri call on Mrs [[Baugher?]] Peyton who has a good western landscape. She subscribes. Call on Molasky who has a new full length portrait of a young married woman very fine says she's a Philadelphia girl named Kelly Says [[Kingore?]] is coming to see it. Meet [[Kingore?]] in elevator & he introduces a Mr Donoghue I tell K Molasky has painted a great portrait Saturday letter from Cap Nave with checks Stop at Independents at Waldorf Meet Wallis [[Pack?]] and Wallowitz comes over as I go in & I go round with him. His decoration is good Meet Sloan & tell him the port by Henri here doesn't look [[end Page]] [[start Page]] 113 N Haven P. L. Biog Dictionary of Musicians James D Brown (Mitchell Library Glasgow 1886) Haydn Chief among his instl. writings are the celebd. str qs whi form one of the most unique bodies of music ever produced by one individual. Their merit is of the highest kind and raises Haydn to the eminence of a deity among compos. of the latter part of last centy. The only coms. who could be said to rival him in the smallest measure are Boccherini Mozart & Pleyel who all wrote in a manner approaching Haydn, but never equally or excelling him. The reason why we place the quartet before the symphonies in point of importance is because of the more powerful writings of Beethoven Mendel Shubert & Spohr. The qs on the contrary have only been excelled in the [[particular?]] of development. His proficiency as a symphonic writer will bear favorable comp. with that of any other c; and in respect [[strikethrough]] of a [[/strikethrough]] to a fine and varied flow of melody there does not exist another com. in the same branch who can be put forward in opposition to him. x x like him. Sloan launches something [[strikethrough]] ad [[/strikethrough]] about his being advertised as a mild man meaning that the mild [[suest?]] expression of Henris portrait [[strikethrough]] isn't [[/strikethrough]] is really like him. I tell him it won't do. Walkowitz smiles. Sloan says "Do you know what they say about your paper?" I say no. He says "They say its going to