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  Eve meet Ed Gongh on Broadway & bring him up to see Dickinson.  Find him in.  Find he has painted his uncle.  D says "I'm sorry you didn't see Uncle Ed.  He's gone.  I wanted you two to get together  He's the typical college professor on art.  It would have been great if you two could have had it out together."  D says he'll paint his father & mother on one canvas.

Tuesday    I went to get some money and ran into Levy's  find Tom Gerrity there  Get check for 50 from Levy. and arrange for photo of a new old Murphy sunset with Pike.  Stop at Mitch's and get a photo of Weirs hunter in woods to reproduce also get check for 50 and arrange to use cut of a Murphy as their adv for Aug. Sep.  Stop into Mussmans & meet Rob.  Mss away  R. just putting up his basket weaver on wall.  See Bowdoin coming out of Academy Art Shop & comes over.  Says he likes my last number.  I ask him out to have a drink & give him a copy of the paper.  He says "I don't want a drink  Id rather have a copy of the paper.  Tells Mussman of the fine portrait in charcoal I made of him.  Down the Aca. with Bowdoin [[strikethrough]] I meet [[/strikethrough]] we meet [[Yang Hauplasing?]] and when I tell him Bowdoin has just been to his exhibition & say he's carrying a catalog.  "Oh thats terrible. you mustn't have anything to do with this terrible [[strikethrough]] bus [[/strikethrough]] German business.  Might think you are a traitor to your country.  Off at 5 boat for Boston.

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Boston.  Thursday Aug    take an early tram for Gloucester and the first person I see on the train is Luis Kronberg sitting with Goodwin the painter.  Goodwin is carrying a picture down to Atwoods show.  Kronberg asks me to sit down [[strikethrough]] upon [[/strikethrough]] on the seat facing them & we talk all the way down.  Goodwin says his mother has just died and the funeral is tomorrow but if I'll come to see his work he'll arrange to meet my convenience.  Tell him I'm going back tonight & he says he is so I say Lets go [[strikethrough]] them [[/strikethrough]] in together & see them tonight.  He says  Fine  I've got some powerful lamps and that'll be fine.  Leave them at station.  Goodwin says Bayley played a game on him once and he wants no more of him.  Kronberg tells of being trimmed out of a commission of a sale by a dealer & says he knows of a Stuart Washington.  haha.  Well anyway Kronburg likes the magazine and says "here's a subscriber nudging Goodwin" & Goodwin says certainly.  They take a taxi with [[strikethrough]] them [[/strikethrough]] Goodwins canvas and I go off down to see the Murray house show.  Who do I see planted directly in front of the Murray house but the irrepressible Jane Peterson with her easel set up painting a beautiful old Colonial white house opposite.  Jane [[bluffs?]] about not having see the last paper but