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asks me if I'll write a word or two for the catalog. Higgins goes out with me and asks me down to big dinner at his studio now nearly ready. Tell him sorry but don't believe I can. He insists but I persist leave him in car. Start down Broadway. Meet Mountfort who is tickled with his success with port of Mrs. Vincent Astor Asks me back to the studio I tell him can't now perhaps tomorrow eve. Thursday 5 Ap. Go down to Carmine St the Village to get cards printed - picturesque quarter but dissolute desperate discouraging. Stay in afternoon so Carol can see a doctor. Jerome & Teresa keep me busy Down for cards at 5. Uptown spend eve. sending out cards. In Grand Central Station just as I turn away from letter box hear a voice hailing me & there is Frank Bayley of Boston leaning against the information booth in the centre of the big concourse. Says he's just obtained complete set of photos from Herbert Lee Pratt of his collection of Am portraits - Says Pratt is so happy over his fake Copley [['Shearers"?]] that he thinks it would be a pity to despair him. Bayley says Ehrich's book is a joke. Says Pratt bought a Copley from Scott & Fowles for $7000 "Hall Jackson" really Bayley says also that Knoedler has sold a bust Washington by Stuart for $75000 to Frick & it came from Camperdown collection. Bayley says [[end page]] [[start page]] 5 he had a client who had him offer K. $50,000 for it, but [[Firth?]] got it higher. Says he once saw a crate full of dead Fritz Thaulows belonging to a woman who said Knoedler had borrowed some money from her and paid her in Thaulow junk. Bayley says he'll send me photo of Copleys Peter Chardon & some others. Wants to help me with the paper. I tell him my trouble with Townsend "My goodness, he says "Why the man makes himself liable when he does a thing like that. Well he'd never got an advertisement out of me except I did it through you." B says Harrison [[?Ellery]] has nothing. That [[C?]] Park is all right Poor Bayley says he's all let out on his lecture to NY Hist Soc too big a job, he says too big [[?]] many things. Says he'll do a [[?Modaston]] group for them. B claims to be the [[?Modaston]] discoverer. Ha ha. Friday 6 Ap. Stop at Mussmans to give M note for catalog of Higgins. Miss Anita Rio there & Higgins. H says he sold one before it got up on the wall and Emil Carlsen came in and said he would buy one. I tell Higgins I'd like to have the little Cosette. He says he'll remember that. Anita Rio says she is moving in to town from the country - studio in Madison Ave. Says I must come over "and we'll have some music." [[strike out]]Et[[/strike out]] In the G. C. I meet Hale on his way through from Penn. Acad. to Boston. Tell H how glad I am he won the popular prize at the Academy. He mentions his wife's prize at the Phil. Art Club. He says he'll write about Paxton for my paper Thinks it sounds promising says "You may be