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1873.

Sunday Jan. 5. We went home Dec 24". Gertrude Sara Downing and I and returned yesterday. I never had a more enjoyable visit home. The day after we reached there we had a magnificent snow storm with the mercury at zero and when that was over a perfect winter landscape under eighteen inches of snow. Downing and I went out into the mountains on the rail road as far as Shandaken Centre. One day my father took us to Rosendale and I had several nice walks although the snow was too deep to get about out of the paths. Attended a lecture of Anna Dickinson in Kingston and was much disappointed. Nett Sterling came up and gave a fine concert in Washington Hall and she and Miss Bragg stand with us and came home with us. Gussie and Joe were there all through our visit and Girard a part of the time. I am full of Winter pictures and the city is tame compared with magnificence of the snowy country - Received a notice last night to attend a meeting of the nominating committee at the Century. To my great surprise it was to nominate a Treasurer in place of Mr. Priestley who died suddenly of Pneumonia on New Year morning while I was abroad. So they go one after another to our bewilderment and sorrow. I saw Stedman at the club for the first time since my illness and he seemed very glad to see me. Joe Tomkins was there with Vaux. Today I have finished a letter to Lang and Baker in Rome begun at home, in which I send each some flowers from Kensetts coffin. A storm of sleet is raging and the streets are horrible.

Wednesday Jan 15. Last night we went up to Scarsdale on the Harlem R.R. and spent the night with Mr & Mrs. B. F. Butler. Hamilton called yesterday and intimated that he or a friend of his would buy a picture of me. I was feeling pretty