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July 17 Thursday very hot have dinner at -6 and walk up Fifth ave slowly having a good cigar.  At Fortieth St hear a voice behind me saying "Are you an writer an editor or a painter.  What are you going to do scatter your talents all around?"  I turn around & there is Mahonri Young.  We walk up the Avenue & M says Miss Sargent who did bust of Luks is very rich and a pupil of Gutzon Borglum.  I tell M her head of Luke is better than Borglum could do M says he hasn't seen it. I mention Sargent and M says "Well whatever we say he's the best of the [[Christy?]] bunch"  I ask M if he saw the Canadian British show. He says "No I went away from the last British show with such a feeling I didn't want to see anymore."  How about Orpen?  I say  "Well says M you talk about Sargent I say that Orpen is about the same thing I don't care for it." Then I tell him "you will think the port of Foch [[guess] is the great portrait of the time.  The great portrait of the big man of the year."  Young says "You'll say yes Orpen gets a good likeness just like Sargent.  but the best things of his were the drawings but I did not get much from them." I ask M how he likes Flanagans'  Wow that I reproduced.  He says "Fine but have you seen the one of Hassam.  It's positively uncanny its so like him.  The one of [[Grofio?]] is not so good and he's done one of Pennell and we got him to cast it."
I tell Young about the NY Library. Chance decoration & he says "I may take up your idea on that"
I say "Set Bartlet after Hastings [[thouart?]] the

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[[image:  pencil drawing of man dressed in a tuxedo. The man is standing in front of a wall or podium which comes to his waist and he has one hand on it.  There are lines and scribbling on the front of the 'wall' which are not decipherable. Caption under drawing 'Eamon de Valera at Madison Square']]

[[?]] it & the thing's done. Young very merry says [[strikethrough]] he [[?strikethrough]] I'm going to buy a house in Town and then you'll see me do something."

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gutzon_Borglum https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mahonri_Young https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Orpen