4748. Those old ledger books used to have many hundreds of
thin pages, but since this was a sketchbook, the paper was a thick smooth
drawing paper, and there were about a hundred and twenty sheets in all. It had
been used often and it was covered with fine scratches, and spots of ink and
paint, both on the covers and accidentally on various pages.
4749. Conspicuously missing was any kind of identifying
information, dates, addresses or numbers. There were other papers stuck into
various pages, and even manila envelopes with materials of various sorts. I
found stubs from shows, and also announcements for museum shows and concerts.
4750. Many of the concert folders had notes written on them
in two different hands, as if it was a couple at a concert, passing the program
back and forth and writing notes to each other on it.
4751. The majority of the book's pages were diary inserts,
written in a very small cramped hand, and in the same hard pencil as the
drawings. Unlike a conventional diary there were no dates. It was my impression
that the writings were not consecutive.
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