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December 10, 1917
Grinnell took me home to dinner and I again saw his 3 kids, who are charmingly
frank and humorous. Grinnell told me that my old friend Kennedy is still at the
____kilns, Mts where I remember him 16 years ago.
December 11, 1917
I visited the Sutro baths with a friend and swam in the tanks.
December 12, 1917
I did some more shopping in Chinatown and visited the Columbia Theatre in the
evening.
December 13, 1917
Pearl Fair took me to a Spanish restaurant for lunch. Afterward we went to an art
store and looked over a lot of bronzes of wolves and pumas by a local artist, Putnam,
who is a man recently gone partially insane. His work is good; the attitudes being
very striking but his style is rough and suggestive, the body being only blocked out or
sketched. Later we visited a marine painter, Hansen, a blond giant who has a studio
in an attic with a few old chairs and a small stove to keep it warm. He is doing a
background of the Pribloff Ids for a furseal group at the Academy of Sciences.