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He admits it reluctantly. V mentions the fine article I wrote about an ex of his years ago Says "I hope you feel the same way now and I hope you meant it. Stop to see Dickinson at night. Find Mountfort too, feeling pretty good over his success with pastel of Mrs Vincent Astor After M goes I [[drag?]] in Fisher of Met Mus. who says D'Hervilly was the only friend he had at Met. Sunday 13 See Courbet show at Museum. See Montross and Speicher there. Monday 14 April. Call up Babcock for ad copy See Macbeth See Kevorkian. Monday Stop to see Mussman & Mrs M agrees to take 1/4 page & Miss Judson & Ennis agree to pay 7.50 & Mrs M 7.50 Ennis says he'll sound French the dealer on adv. Good. Tuesday 15 April Stop to see H. Giles who is busy with two formodels painting an illustration in color. Sits down to talk. Sends the models off to rest and says he'd like to write of J Alden Weir but needs to have a little time - Shows me some canvases Says he'll subscribe writes a check. Over to Brooklyn & back to Carol then up to see Rob. Macbeth who takes a half page and gives me cut of the fine Twachtman to print. Find Bob delight [[end page]] [[start page]] 9 ful and genuinely modest. I tell him Babcock is splurging with a page. He says "Are you a friend of Babcocks? I've yet to find [[underline]] anybody [[/underline]] who is. The colored elevator man is standing waiting, & Bob turns to him & says, and I'm sorry to hear him say it. "What do you want Sam. You know you're no ornament to this gallery" Sam says "I know it" & Bob goes off to take care of his wants. McIntyre says he saw the Scott & Fowles Copley and he thought it a very fine one. Miller gives his assent to taking the space & I find him just at present very modest also. Bob Macbeth says he pays Nelson $30 for 1/2 page in Studio I tell him "Studio" on the go and mine is just coming. He's very decent about it all & when I ask him to compromise on the $25 for 1/2 page by advancing half - he says but I'm afraid you'll have to take it in cash, if we've got it as our treasurer is not in. Good Then Bob gives me 12.50. See Miss Howells show and ask Moller to tell her I was in again. Up to Kevorkians & K comes in late after Miss Ramsey in a nice Mary Stuart lace collar and quaint black dress with wide up & down striped skirt insists on Mowbray Clarke giving me a prior view of some of his smaller bronzes. Good for Mrs Ramsey. Clarke who had come down stairs before to tell me his show would not be ready till May 10th & that his wife could tell me something [[end page]]
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Here is the Wiki article on Eugene Speicher: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eugene_Speicher
Here is the website of Babcock Galleries, the oldest gallery in New York.