Charles E. Burchfield (1893-1967)

85. tuna fish used it" - I thought this was terribly funny and laughed so hard, that I woke up.

     Unable to get started on my picture - day spent in making a bench-chair for the pavilion.[i]

                   July 15, (Wed.)

     M.A. + M to Norma (CD) (to their summer cottage at Hamburg on the Lake" -

     Evening - Rest of us to Lafayette - to see "Submarine (CD)" and "Blondie Goes to College.[ii]

                   July 16 -

     At work all day on the wheat field picture, putting in the new distance.

     Reading at times the "Story of Sibelius" by Elliott Arnold again. And in the late evening news of imminent declaration of war by our country against Finland. It seems to me this catastrophe could somehow be avoided. It is terribly depressing. For many months now there has been no news from Sibelius. One of the greatest men of our country is in his last days, and we are cut off from his country, and any news of him. Probably I will never be able to rid my self of the longing to clasp the hand of this great man. - or of the (CD) regret that it will never have taken place.[iii]

                   July 25 - (Saturday) -

     "Dog-days" are here - Stagnant stifling weather hot, humid air, the sun shining brassily from a haze-thickened sky - In the morning heavy dew, with countless silvery