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 November 28, 1962, Indiana records that he did not make it to the Stable Gallery as early as planned. There he had The Red Diamond American Dream #3 disassembled before the shippers arrived, as the painting was being sent to the Galerie Saqqârah in Gstaad, Switzerland. He writes that copies of the December issue of Vogue, which included a color reproduction of Grass (in the article "More Art Than Money,") were on hand, but that the only copy of Art in America was his (Indiana was included in the article "Folklore of the Banal" in the Winter 1962 issue).

Indiana also notes that he brought his construction Star into Eleanor Ward's apartment, and then took her to Elkon Gallery to see Agnes Martin's show. Martin arrived late, accompanied by a nurse (Martin was being treated at the New York Psychiatric Institute), and met up with Chryssa and Lenore Tawney. Indiana and Ward also stopped by the Dubuffet show at the Cordier-Eskstrom Gallery before returning to Stable. Indiana writes that Museum of Modern Art curator Campbell Wylly came by to select slides for a symposium at the museum, but that they were "shooed out" when Joseph Hirshhorn, who remembered him from his visit with Philip Johnson (on March 31), stopped by with his curator Abram Lerner.

Indiana writes that he was driven back to the Slip by Wynn Chamberlain, who wanted them to go to the Museum of Modern Art Symposium together, and that he received a call from Ward informing him that Hirshhorn had purchased The Eateria for "the big collection." After dinner he went to the Bowery to pick up his stretchers, and Chamberlain offered to help him transport them in his station wagon.