Walked and chatted in the morning and after lunch drove to Boston and saw the Library. The Puvis’ along the sides of the entrance hall are very fine — the large one around the door of Bates Hall less successful. The Abbeys were awful, but the Sargeants surpassed for vulgarity and triviality and ugliness anything we ever saw! No modern Italian could be worse. We did not say a word to Mrs. Gardner, who, we think, admires them. On