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Sunday 3 Aug     Bridgeport Public Library

  Special Art Room   Locked up    Dark woman in reference room  about it and she was so smart in the guarding of the room that finally, put to it by my serious grilling she said "well what did you expect me to do?"  "I'd like to look on the shelves to see what you have."  "Oh, yes of course" and she unlocks the door.  All books in locked shelves and she hovers in

        Find
   The Royal Gallery of Hampton Court
        by
    Ernest Law
       Geo. Bell & Sons 1898
find a beautiful group of 
   (Six) Children of Geo III by [[double underline]]West[[/double underline]]
   oblong      Signed & dated 1776
      [[V?]] Green mezzatinted it.

double port    Prince of Wales & Duke of York. West
       guite beautiful  full length [[igrdex?]]
                   boys
double portrait  Dukes of Clarence & Kent
        xx         very beautiful
            & full of Character.    West
                    photos S Jones & Co.
                        p. 1748
[[left margin--sketch of woman with hair up.  Perhaps the librarian?]] must use these

   very fine Gainsborogh full l.  Dr Fisher
               "  full l.  Col. Sand Leges
                    uniform & horse

Rigand  Louis XV  young  1/2 length

xx Jansson   Duke of Buckingham.  very fine bust

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Monday  up to Muessmanns write the forward for their catalog of Philip Litke.  They let me have a check for 5. on adv.  Stop in at Mrs. Powells to cash & Charley DeKay come in - Says he just left Nelson  international Nelson.  Find DeKay looking very bad.  When he come in & I [[walk?]] out to Mrs. P.  "Whats new in art?" and I see the heavy rolling bummish looking figure with a most disreputable hat and greasy looking clothes.  I take a sudden dislike to the man.  Mrs. P introduces him & he sits down.  Find him a wreck of a good looking man grey mustaches & goatee.  Some teeth gone and lips heavy and sunken.  Mouth dissolute.  Good eyes & when he takes his hat off his head with grey hair quite decent.  Talks a lot of stuff.  [[illegible strikethrough]] Says he got [[Managua?]] to do the Hudson Fulton medal.

Daniel Mytens by himself   [[small sketch of a man with goatee looking right.  Has a ruffled collar]]
damn fine
elegant handsome
    use this

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