Made 9/4/53 - & got quite hard & insoluble,3”0 of this was taken up to Bell Ish to be softened,This dryer was composed as follows,1.1.21 varnish botts,1.1.21 powd litharge,2.24 ½ red lead,1. 12 ¼ sugar lead,1.3.6 linseed oil,5.3.1 ¾ Total in stock,To this hard dryer was added linseed oil sufficient to soften it by heating well up. Taking each time 47 ½ lbs of dryers & 4 galls oil –The wholte quantity done was,331 ¾ lbs of the dryers & 294 # linsd oil – consequently the was nearly 625 ¾ # of the dissolved dryers abt as thick as birdlime,Geale said that this did very well, it had however the quality of being difficult to get properly & evenly mixed with the colour – It required to be rubbed up either with Turpentine or better still with turpentine colour – previous to being mixing with the body of the other prepns It gave a somewhat clingy feel to the colour which is not objectionable for canvass colours provided it be not carried too far.,When some of this was wanted for 1st color for canvass, I melted a certain quantity over fire in back yard & when fluid added oil (see page 423) this made it easily miscible,