Lloyd Goldsmith, Jutta Anse, Rosemary Hamilton and David Freund came to our house for a get-together. We served drinks and showed Lloyd and Jutta and then David our new apartment. See the previous three entries.,Originally in caption field: 1974-03-25 (roll date, image # 16)nnFor some unknown reason, entries 2, 3, and 4 in this series appear are dated Monday, 3/25/74 (a less likely day of the week to plan a get-together on). So I changed all entries in this series to match entry 1 and dated them 3/9/74.]]> Lloyd Goldsmith, Jutta Anse, Rosemary Hamilton and David Freund came to our house for a get-together. We served drinks and showed Lloyd and Jutta and then David our new apartment. See the previous two entries and the following entry.,Originally in the caption field: 1974-03-25 (roll date, image #12)nnFor some unknown reason, entries 2, 3, and 4 in this series appear are dated Monday, 3/25/74 (a less likely day of the week to plan a get-together on). So I changed all entries in this series to match entry 1 and dated them 3/9/74.]]> Lloyd Goldsmith, Jutta Anse, Rosemary Hamilton and David Freund came to our house for a get-together. We served drinks and showed Lloyd and Jutta and then David our new apartment. See the previous entry and the following two entries.,Originally in caption field: 1974-03-25 (roll date, image #10)nnFor some unknown reason, entries 2, 3, and 4 in this series appear are dated Monday, 3/25/74 (a less likely day of the week to plan a get-together on). So I changed all entries in this series to match entry 1 and dated them 3/9/74.]]> Lloyd Goldsmith, Jutta Anse, Rosemary Hamilton and David Freund came to our house for a get-together. We served drinks and showed Lloyd and Jutta and then David our new apartment. See the following three entries.,Original entry title: A Get-together 1 of 4 3 9 74nnFor some unknown reason, the other 3 entries from this series appear are dated Monday, 3/25/74 (a less likely day of the week to plan a get-together). So I changed all entries in this series to 3/9/74.]]> Alison came to pose for Cathy. She didn't come for a little while because Cathy had been having trouble with her eyes and had been resting them. The next day Cathy and I went to the eye doctor to have her eyes checked.,Original entry title: Alison Beall 3 8 74]]> Jay Walsh is one of the lawyers for Helen Batchler (see August 20, 1973). Both of the lawers discussed are associates in this particular case involving Joseph Cornell's estate. They both had come to see if I could help them by providing information about Joseph Cornell's relationship with his family and his intentions for his work, and about his understanding of the legality and nature of some of his expectations. The problem is that the estate is a charity trust. And the trust is trying to take the works that Cornell's sisters and niece had in their possession. The trust was trying to prove that the works weren't gifts but were being stored for safekeeping. Jay Walsh was trying to prove the opposite.,Original entry title: Jay Walsh 3 7 74]]> Originally in caption: 1974-03-05 (roll date, image #21A)]]> They came over for dinner. We had Coquilles Saint-Jacques à la nantaise (au naturel), scallops in scallop shells or ramekins with butter and shallots, canards en cassoulet (special cassoulet with duck and hot sausages. This was a dinner that came from Simone Beck's book, Simca's Cuisine, and is an "earthy dinner for high-spirited friends", a description I don't think we managed to live up to. We also had a green salad. And for dessert, baked apple with whipped cream. The Marilyn Monroe t-shirt Jon is wearing is one he just made. He said he is going to make me two t-shirts, one with Cathy on it, and another with Gertrude Stein on it.,Original entry title: Joy and Jon 3 3 74]]> She came over to pose for Cathy and slept over. We had ham hash for dinner with ham leftover from Alan and Elena's dinner (see entry: Alan and Elena, February 23, 1973). On Friday we went out to dinner with Jon and Joy (Santlofer) at the Clam Broth House in Hoboken. Jon came over in the afternoon. Jon and Joy are considering buying a house in Hoboken. Cathy's eye has been hurting all day from strain so she didn't paint Alison on Friday night. Alison did all the dishes today.,Original entry title: Alison Beall 2 28 3 1 74nnOriginally in caption: 1974-02-28 - 03, Thursday and Friday]]> Alison came over to pose for Cathy. She had dinner with us—Ham leftover from Sunday, cubed and with the sauce, over rice, zucchini. And for dessert, Alison brought some leftover cake she had made for a dinner at her house. It was very good.,Original Entry title: Alison Beall 2 25 74]]> He visited and had some dessert, leftover from last night. See last entry.,Original entry title: Jon 2 24 74]]> They came over for dinner and to see our new apartment. We had dinner in the dining room for the first time, which was lots of fun. We also used our new China for the first time (Limoge we got in Nyack). We had asparagus (cold in a mustard sauce), ham braised in vegetables and wine with cream and mustard sauce, noodles, braised onions and for dessert Maida Heatter's chocolate mousse torte.,Original entry title: Elena and Alan 2 23 74]]> Alison came over to pose for Cathy and then Rosemary came for dinner. This is the first time Rosemary met Alison. We had a Chinese dinner. On Tuesday, while shopping for ingredients in Chinatown in NYC, I met Virginia Lee. She is the co-author with Craig Claiborne of The Art of Chinese Cooking. She helped me buy some hard to get spices. The woman in the Country Kitchen store introduced us when she was having trouble understanding what I wanted. For dinner, we made beef lo mein, red wine sauce chicken, kung pao shrimp, dry-fried string beans and walnut date soup for dessert. They both slept over. Rosemary left after breakfast on Thursday.,Original entry title: Rosemary and Alison 2 19 29 74]]> I bought a sculpture tool for Jon at Sculpture Services, 9 east 19th Street, NYC. He came to pick it up. He and Joy left just as Rosemary was arriving. See next entry.,Original entry title: Jon and Joy 2 19 74]]> She came over to pose for Cathy.,Original title entry: Alison Beall 2 18 74]]> We all went to manhattan. First, we went to the Little Carnegie Cinema to see Woody Allan's Sleeper. We all thought it was very funny. After the movie, we went to the Russian Tea Room for dinner for Joy's birthday. The food was very disappointing. Then we came home and had birthday cake, Le Glorieux, which Cathy made.,Original entry title: Jon and Joy 2 17 74]]> He took us to look at light fixtures and then we went to the Clam Broth House in Hoboken for dinner.,Original entry title: Neil 2 16 74]]> Jon came over to get a copy of the Sunday Times Magazine. The article that Vivian Raynor wrote was in this issue (see entries: October 15, 1973, and January 16, 1974). The article about is about Four young artists, including Cathy (Catherine Murphy).,Original entry title: Jon 2 16 74]]> Originally in caption field: 1974-02-15 (roll date, image #10)]]> Alison posing for Cathy's (Catherine Murphy) painting. She slept over.,Original entry title: Alison Beall 2 14 74]]> He picked me up at the Jersey City Dental School. I had the first in a series of four perio (gum) operations.]]> Jon and I went to the launderette together.]]> Alison posed for Cathy and then had dinner with us—onion burgers and spinach.,Original entry title: Alison Beall 2 5 74]]> They came over for dinner. Cathy cooked a chicken recipe from her new Dione Lucas cookbook. It was a problem recipe.,Original entry title: Jon and Joy 2 3 74]]> He picked us up and we went to Nyack to look for some things for our house. We bought globes for a light fixture (which we don't yet have) for the living room. And we are going to order a china cabinet we saw in one of the shops. Neil bought an art deco light fixture for over his dining room table for when he gets one and a new apartment.]]> Jon and Joy came for a visit. See last entry.]]> He came over with Joy (Santlofer) for a visit. See next entry.,Original entry title: Jon & Jon and Joy 1 of 2 2 1 74]]> She came to pose for Cathy.,Original entry title: Alison Beall 1 31 74]]> They came over for dinner. Maria brought some materials for needlepoint and taught us how to do it. She left an empty canvas for Cathy to paint a design on it for her. Cathy and I wanted to learn needlepoint so we could make chair pillows for her parent's dining room chairs. This would be a present for their 50th anniversary. We had homemade Chinese food for dinner - shrimp toast, chicken with walnuts, dry-fried string beans, stir fry pork cubes with straw mushrooms and baby corn, coconut soup (dessert) and bought fortune cookies. Later we had tea, brownies and bought cookies.,Original entry title: Scott and Maria Burnham 1 23 74]]> On his way from doing an errand at Jersey City Sate College, he came by for lunch.,Original entry title: Jon 1 21 74]]> They came over for the last two pieces of Cathy's birthday cake (see last entry).,Original entry title: Joy and Jon 1 20 74]]> Alison slept over Saturday and then again on Sunday, Sunday because she was out of gas - January 19 - 22, and then again on Monday. It was close to Cathy's birthday (January 22), so everyone came over to celebrate. I made Marjolaine (a French cake invented by Fernand Point). Alison also posed for Cathy during this visit.,Original entry title: Jon, Joy, Neil, Alison, Pansy 1 19 74]]> Cathy's birthday is on the 22 of January (see next two entries) and Neil's is the 21st. Birthday presents were exchanged - we got Neil a shoulder satchel, for him to bring paperwork to work, and he gave Cathy a fish pouch.,Original entry title: Neil 1 18 74]]> This was the first day Alison posed for Cathy's (Catherine Murphy) painting of her. First, we had dinner together.,Original entry title: Alison Beall 1 16 74]]> Jon and Joy had given us their couch when they moved to Delaware. We recently had it recovered at Ace Chair Renewal in jersey City. Jon came to over to see it. They did a terrific job.,Original entry title: Jon 1 16 74]]> Bud Lee came to photograph Cathy (Catherine Murphy) for the story in the New York Times Sunday Magazine written by Vivian Raynor (see October 15, 1973).,Original entry title: Bud Lee and Barbara Egon 1 16 74]]> He picked us up, and we all went to our parents' house. On the way, we stopped at the Brooklyn Botanical Gardens to buy plants. I went to my parents' house there so I could do some cleaning and get rid of some of my things that are still in their basement (my old room). On the way home, we ate dinner at the Mandarin Inn in Chinatown, NYC.,Original entry title: Neil 1 15 74]]> Jon picked me up so I could go back to his place and help him photograph his paintings. After that, he drove me to the dental school, where I had an appointment.,Original entry title: Jon 1 14 74]]> They came for a visit.,Original entry title: Joy and Jon 1 13 74]]> Fred hadn't seen our new apartment and Neil wanted to see how it was coming along. I served them coffee from my new drip coffee pot that Cathy got me for Christmas.,Original entry title: Neil and Fred 1 12 74]]>