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a millionaire" Tell him of Montrose selling Brandegees landscapes. Tell him how fine Brandegee is, how much more of a man than a lot of these noisy New York painters. Hale says "You know my dear old father (Ed Emett Hale) was on a committee to get a portrait once & he went around to see the N.Y. painters with Joe Choate and he said to me 'They seem to me like a lot of tradesmen.' Show Hale photo I just got from Daniel of S Halperts Toledo Cathedral & H agrees with me its very good. H asks me what I think of Bellows. I tell him. He says "He's sort of an illustrator." Saturday 12 Apr. Stop at Knoedlers. Charlie K standing in the lobby calls out after me "Do you ever read the Sun?" "That was a hot letter" Charlie says Bellows "Widow" is gone to Paris for the Ex of Am 100. Find Bellows has put up another widow. Find Molasky in [[?their]] Is it [[done?]]. Howard Giles comes over. Says he gets very little chance to paint has to do black & white & teach. Says he'd like to write about Weir for my paper. Says he will do it In morning I met George Ennis on 8th St & he asked me back to Salmagundi to have a drink Find Vonnoh there. Give him hell & he tells how the war killed his $25000 a year portrait business-limousine & all that Feels much knocked out. I tell him his group show lacked diversity. [[end page]] [[start page]] 7 [[images -line drawings: two male heads; 1 female head; some other scribbles]] Mowbray Clark order [[butter?]] Orlands Clemenceau [[Sorenicco?]]