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Chinese paintings which we want for the School of Chinese Studies library and museum. We had a great time getting them and I think made a worthy choice. Peter was appreciative of all we did and had a beautiful time on private explorations of his own.

We found some reproductions of famous hand roll[[s]] which were photographed by the Japanese in exact copy of the original, even to the brocade on the outside of the roll. The size and quality of the silk were also exact.

In the evening we attended the first meeting of the Peking Scribbler's Club which promises to be an interesting organization. There were seventeen or so there and all interested in doing some real writing and giving it to the Club for criticism. Dorothy and I did a good bit of talking because we seemed to be the only two who had ever belonged to Clubs of this sort before. Dorothy knew the insi[[de]] workings of the Poetry Society of America when she was in New York and I recalled the doings of the Andiron Club of that same city. The next meeting will prove if the thing will go or not.

November 17
This was the day of my regular weekly lecture on bibliography, and before that came off we had Chinese food for lunch and then walked up to the barber shop where Dorothy went behind to the ladies department and had a shampoo and I had a hair cut, shampoo and massage. Then I went on up to school and Dorothy walked home alone.

The Clove Alley girls had a dinner that night for eleven and we had a nice, informal party eating on low stools around their fireplace. One of the guests was a classmate of Mears and had been a freshman in Goucher when Dorothy was a senior. So all told there were five Goucher graduates present that night and they had quite the majority. We sat around talking after dinner but did not stay late, for on work days we have to get to bed at a decent hour.

November 18.
Today we received news that by virtue of our position on the faculty of the YSCS we have been given free membership to the Peking Instituteof Fine Arts, the outstanding center in Peking of cultural activities for the foreign population. Membership is $35 a year for two, I think, and the membership gives us entrance, free, to most of the