Dream Vales) after which we went back to the car.
                                                                          April 22, 1938-
     B & I to Buffalo to look at sinks.
                                                                  April 23, 1938 (Saturday)
     Got the elevators picture out. It is a venture I both dread and anticipate. This year it is “do or die!”
                                                                   April 24, 1938 (Sunday)
      B & I PM - to call on Valentine & see his new home. My feelings toward him are mainly pity - he is a pleasant mannered man, but his color sense is atrocious, and his execution piddling - in short, he is hopelessly mediocre to bad as far as painting goes. And he talked incessantly about people whom we did not know; and who could not possibly interest us. The incessant talking may have been from nervousness, but it was irritating none-the-less. The best I could do for him today was to pity him, as I said before.
                                                                        April 25 1938-
     PM. To Sawyer’s for dinner (Alexander Brook was a house guest there.)
     Dinner was at 7:00 and I was somewhat disconcerted when, arriving at 6:40, I found no one there, and must be “received” by the young son, who was subtly diffident. I was informed Mr. Sawyer & Brook had gone somewhere for cocktails.
     It is hard for me to be annoyed long about such trifles so when they came in shortly before 7:00, & I was left alone