Robert Indiana kept a series of illustrated journals during the late 1950s and 1960s, in which he discusses the development of his work as well as his daily life on Coenties Slip.

This journal page covers March 1, 1959, and February 29–March 1, 1960. In his entry for March 1, 1959, Indiana writes that he did "mirror work at Hoppe's. In preparation for the AT&T show in Brooklyn tomorrow." The artist is referencing his work with John Hoppe and his Mobilux kinetic-light “spectaculars,” and the AT&T show he refers to is the Bell Telephone Hour on NBC-TV (Indiana's journal entry for March 4, 1959, lists March 4 as the date in which he participated). 

In his second entry on the page, for February 29, 1960, Indiana records spending most of the day procuring materials and preparing the newspaper markups for the musical Bye Bye Birdie. After dinner and watching a television show on Paris fashions he went to deliver the dummies to Bob McCarthy, who was staying at Jane Lougee's. He writes that Lougee, "snowed under with this play work with her new husband, Baird [Bryant]," was surprised to see it was him, and "burst out" with his name. He notes departing at two, leaving his bill, "but not feeling too good about anything."  

In his entry for March 1, 1960, Indiana records that collector Richard Brown Baker came over for a dinner of lamb stew, bringing white wine and a book, Jean Cocteau's The White Paper. He writes that Baker was settled in New Jersey, and that friends, including artist Edward Avedisian, had followed him "to the far side of the Hudson." He notes that Baker was still interested in his painting of nine orbs (Nine Golden Orbs), and that "he seemed to like what he saw in the studio."