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.
In his journal entry for September 27, 1962, Indiana records that it was a rainy and windy day, which made a trip uptown to deal with the photographs of his work "highly undesirable," so he ended up dealing with the situation over the phone. He writes that photographer Eric Pollitzer's first stop was the Stable Gallery, so he gave Alan Groh, the gallery's director, "instructions on [the] Janis scene," asking him to "trim down [the] Diamonds and deliver them [to] Janis [via] the photographer who was going there anyway." (Indiana's The Black Diamond American Dream #2 would be included in International Exhibition of the New Realists, opening at the Sidney Janis Gallery on October 31, 1962.) He also notes that Groh reported the layout for the half page vertical ad in Art International was complete, and included his Eat painting over one of Andy Warhol's Soup Cans (the ad appeared in the October 25, 1962 issue). He also reported that he liked Indiana's "Poster Painting" (Stable), "the photos of wh[ich] Pollitzer delivered, and all seems green on my request for a poster and a catalogue—announcement."
Indiana records numerous phone calls, first from James Rosenquist, who confirmed that Ileana Sonnabend had invited him to show at her gallery in Paris, and that both their names had recently appeared in Die Welt, a Hamburg newspaper. He then notes a call from John Ardoin, who cancelled Indiana's photo rush order, and told him that Helen Merrill, of Osgood Gallery, was going to call him. She did, and invited him to participate in a drawing show in March.
Indiana also records that Lenore Tawney stopped by, informing him that she would have the keys for her new loft the coming weekend, and that he told gallerist Rolf Nelson that if he was leaving his loft that he would like to take it. However, Nelson reported that Rosensquist had already asked for it, throwing him "into a dilemma."
