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[[blank page]] [[start page]] 1893 May 17th Sketched Bacon's bridge in the morning. Atmosphere too clear. Lunch at Miss Patten's. It is too sudden a change from out of doors & nature - to a lunch party of girls. One feels a little out of place. Miss Nurse - who accepts and thrusts upon other's observance, her role of "young old maid" with irritating complacency. Gertrude Kimball - Negative in every respect. Mary Saulom - Practical, inquisitive & gossipy, with only the commonest insights, and no delicacy in any respect. Alice Shattuck - Excellent social qualities. Well informed & bright in conversation. Thoroughly conventional in mind. Not