Paul Manship called for me and took me to his studio which is near
Washington Square in a side alley that used to contain stables. The
moment one turned into that side alley one had left New York! He has
a beautiful studio and house, and his work is modern and archaic and
has a great sense of design. It interested me to discover how he gets
his surfaces and the feeling of the thing being carved; this is done
by working on the plaster. He is going to have an exhibition in London
at the Leicester Galleries in the spring. I shall be very interested
to know the result. I am sorry for the artist who goes from here to
London, instead of from London here.
I dined with Mr. Archer Huntington in the most lovely house. A real
man’s house, no knickknacks. There were some Goya’s that arrested one’s
attention.
We were a small party, or else the house was so big, and we all seemed
rather English and talked low and there was a calm that was unlike
New York. I found my host treated me rather like Lenin did, smilingly
and lightly, as if I were not very serious. But he takes me seriously
evidently, for he is arranging an exhibition for me at the Museum of
the American Numesmatic Society.