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Saturday 22 November  terrible day.  Very ill with cold in chest & stiff neck & back.  Stay abed late.  Up to Ainslee's collect for adv.  A says he sold Inness "Sunset Passaic" to Howard Young for biggest price paid by dealer to dealer.  Suggests I go over to see Young.  Do so  find him in.  Says he'll see if he can get photo of it See a little early Murphy there.  Drop into Babcocks who says Dickinson, Young, Nave, Higgins & Marie Apel were in and all went down to my place for my picture.  I go out to buy a stretcher & varnish  [[Hurry?]] home & find D has taken away my port of Mason.  I get excited and say hard things & Carol pitches into me.  Bad time.  Up town again drop in Knoedlers  no one there.  On to Babcocks no one  find the three of Bs men in gallery looking at my Mason which is in one of [[Bcks?]] frames & up.  Goodwin's stuff not yet in.  Higgins arrives - Says he likes my Mason very much  very much  His friend the little Jewish woman writer comes in  She likes it too - Says Ds portrait of me looks a continuation of me & Higgins.  We all see it as she says so.  

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  A man named Swinburne in to see Wendells stuff.  Says he owns Wendells & a Twachtman pastel.  Says he is a cousin of W C Brownell.  Says he bought a Harris Warton for $5 & sold it to Macbeth for 200.  Says he/Brownell knew Martin & Wendell & Twachtman well.  Higgins cashes my checks & gives me his own on Harriman Bank to cover mine.  Show looks good.  Babcock agrees its best we've had. 
   Yesterday Friday I met Peter Van Veen in Ralstons  tall sort of [[Suphite?]] chap.  Asks me up to his studio to see the stuff he is to exhibit at Ralstons.  Norbert their man is there employed by Ralston.  Says he has two Duvenecks for sale. one bought by his father in London.  Says he'd [[strikethrough]] to [[/strikethrough]] like me to have me reproduce one. [[strikethrough]] Van Veen [[/strikethrough]] Block of Ralstons says he'd likeme to reproduce a Van Veen. & says he likes the new issue of Review.  In Babcocks an hour or two & no one comes in but Higgins friends.  They say Miss Cary of Times was in. & Mrs Nelson.