Charles E. Burchfield (1893-1967)

35. very talkative. He told me tales of the Whitney and Vanderbilt families, and seem to take a personal pride in their great wealth, and their idiosyncrasies.

     I found Watson to be a very agreeable intelligent person, and not inclined to make demands on my time or effort to assemble his article – which made me willing to help him as much as I could. We dined on the top floor (23^rd) of the building his office is in.

     He outlined some photographs he wants taken at my studio.

     p.m.  at gallery – F – shows some work by Hopper + Watkins – “Night Hawks” by (sic) and Route 6, by Hopper – both in his best vein – and a portrait of a man by Watkins – superb in its analysis.

     Hopper in at late afternoon, and we had a long chat.

     Thurs Evening – dinner with F + Geo Olds + his son, who is in the coast guard – this was his last night of “leave” – It was fine to see him George radiated love for his son.

     We had difficulty finding a picture. We all felt the choice was up to young Olds, and his pick was a Cagney picture of airplanes, (but it was “standing room only there” – We wandered up and down Broadway (which I thoroughly enjoyed) and finally in desperation, settled on a double mystery bill.

     Night train home.[i]

                   Feb. 20 –

     Letter from Blair saying he had been inducted into the army – I call his mother and tell her to write him to withdraw his application[ii]