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[[start page]] Friday July 11 Meet Jerome Myers in the print room of the library. Give him a good sound one about Bellows. Myers smiles Says "You dont like Bellows do you?" I say like him how could anyone like those damned lithographs They're an awful case against him. Myers agrees [[strike]] ww [[/strike]] with me but says little against Bellows except that the lithos have steam him up. Sat July 12 Sunday July 13 Take 12 tram for New Haven trolly to NB then train back to New Haven decide to call on Ern find him home Says he will take Annie to Madison tomorrow. Monday July 14 Annie B gets ready to go to Madison from Eves They go down ahead of me & when I get off car at Green find Ern & Annie standing at corner Newsboys had beset me & had just bought some NY papers & turned around when I see Annie & Ern Annie beaming the dear lady. She is in her black dress and has her small traveling bag with her. Ern smiles & Annie says "the boys, did you buy all the papers" and laughs. Dinky Freer comes by & stops to see us. Shows us his labor paper which he is writing for. Says Nell [[Tuesday July 15 inserted]] wrote some Paris stuff for my paper. [[end page]] [[start page]] 13 Bayle & Son store [[?]] Dunlap heagle Richard M. Johnson Corcoran [[Prist very Sma ldsc. ga bg.?]] "Tuckerman's Book of the Artist [[Putnam?]] 1867 fine large edition with steel eng frontispiece of Daniel Huntingdon fine old boy [[nice doodle of a man's head facing left with spectacles]] Earliest one has Col. p who had any proper training in Art seems [[strikethrough]]to have been Robert Feke. his desc have his p of self & wife also p of little girl p on panel. Dunlap says F did Mrs Welling 1746 signed that year he did several in Phil. T mentions Copley ports of Geo Shirley & wife, two of the Misses Plumpstead of Phil. It mentions that Copley ports of Gov, Shirley + wife [[too of the]] [[? ? ]] [[Plouspstead]] of Phil. At the family mansion at Haverhill there is a fine p by this artist of Judge Saltonstall who was b 1703 & d 1756 Huntington elect NA pres 1862 Some 30 yrs ago neath glorious old elms of [[Kenlhurs?]] used to study odes of Horace a 3 in the morning E N born New York 1866 to Trumbulls studio had just impulse Trumbull told him how precarious was the life but H Sat to Elliot 35 pupil of Morse 1850 ex at Ne Y of Hs ps in which appears portrait of the 'Painter's Daughter'-- his friend Inman's full of rich expression "-----" Lover's Surprise"
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The second page is nearly illegible, but there is a nice sketch of a man with glasses.
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