Monday, 1 November 1880

Our atelier is becoming like the men’s, which is to say we shall have figure drawing all day, the same model in the same pose; consequently one will be able to paint large studies. For two or three months already I have needed this; before, it would have served no purpose, but I am ready for this work. We are only eight; the other students, numbering twenty-two, have moved to the new atelier that Julian has set up at 51 rue Vivienne, where the organisation is as in our old one.
I have been working for three years now.
We drank a punch that I paid for.
Yesterday Berthe lunched at our house with her baby, then the Tchoumakoffs arrived, old Mme Mouzay and Saint-Amand, whom we took to the Bois. In the evening I received a letter from Daillens in which she begs me to take care of myself.