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off the varnish and you'll see red, yellow and all kinds of colors. The best galleries today are experimenting with every kind of means of first X-Raying and then delicately removing layer after layer of varnish.

On Varnishing Day the literary world was there. The magazine people were awfully important in those days. They weren't just run of the mill people. There weren't so many magazines, but Harper's, Century and so on were prominent. Richard Watson Gilder after all was editing the Century Magazine. You don't suppose that Mr. Gilder was ever out of anything. Art, literature, drama, public affairs were all everybody's business.

In other words, the influential people were much smaller in percentage to the total population than they have been later. For them the town was relatively small. Mrs. Gifford Pinchot and I were just discussing the other day (March 1952) how we met at the Varnishing Day at the Pennsylvania Academy. She was a beautiful young girl, Cornelia Bryce was - the hand somest thing imaginable.

The magazines of the day were really something. Scribner's, Harper's, the Century were really solid and something. You had something to read when you bought a copy of the Century. You didn't have any pictures to look at, but you really had something good. McClure's Magazine had been started. S. S.