Viewing page 21 of 50

This transcription has been completed. Contact us with corrections.

do all of his (H. R. Vandercook) drawing and am fairly paid I have done more or less work ever since I returned home and in all have earned about 20$ it was only upon last monday that I purchased my desk & chair which Father gave me and now I am going to work regularly and hope to earn some money. I go into the city most every day and return in the afternoon and can I pay all of my expenses and keep myself supplied with pocket money I shall be quite happy this remains to be found out. Since my return from N.Y. I have made a most agreable acquaintance in John Andrews a young man of much intrensic merit - the Andrews family are one of the most delightful that I ever met and I have been most agreably entertained by them

"Prospect" Sunday evening Sep 22nd 72

As I again open my long neglected Journal and trace the familiar lines of its pages thoughts jostle and crowd themselves upon my memory and I am in doubt where to commence the narration of one of the pleasantest summers I have ever experienced; to be sure I naturally feel as though I could speak of nothing but the events of the past few days which have certainly been most dilightful and satisfactory Yesterday seemed a sunny day for us all, Father succeeded in bringing to a close the sale of the large southern portion of our farm amounting to 320 acres and augmenting The capital of his business with the sum of 90,000$ While I culminated an affair of a different description but of this further on-  During the past summer we have all of us