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"Kaatskill Woods"-"November" & "Sea from Shore" each $1250. "October in the Kaatskills" $1500 - "Scribners Mill" study for "Sea from Shore" $300 each. Received a long and interesting letter from Gifford from the top of Mt. Mansfield. He had had fine Salmon fishing in Canada, was going to Lake George and wants me to join him.

Wednesday Sept 3. 1873. My father & mother went to the camp meeting at Wesly Town in the Walkill Valley R.R. I had one of my head aches but managed to get over it by nine o'clock. I find cayenne pepper taken internally helps me. Gertrude received a letter from Mrs. Church from Cold Springs Harbor, L.I. in which she says she is coming home on Wednesday and seems anxious to have us come to visit them. In the evening came a letter from Church in which he says he has received my letter and wants us to come next Monday. I am in a quandary and wrote to Whittredge to ask him how he finds the material out at Pine Hill. I am afraid if I go to Church's he will want to want to roam about and I will spend the little I have put by for my fall sketching and not get much out of it. I shall wait to hear from Whittredge before I decide what to do. X

Thursday 4. I painted a little today on the little picture for Lucy and a little [[?]]. Received a letter this evening from Whittredge. He is still ill and I think a little discouraged. He had half a mind to leave Pine Hill and go to Bolton on Lake George but I have written him not to make up his mind hastily. I think he worries about not getting to work but I confess I am a little anxious about him. I have written to Gifford and to Eastman Johnson enclosing Post Office order for the $4.65 for chest of drawers & liquor case.

Friday 5. Took my small box and went out back of [[Ludlums?]] and painted a little sketch looking toward Hussey Hill. In the afternoon went fishing to the upper ice house with the boys.

Saturday 6. Wrote a note to Mr. Storer of Cincinnati to know if my pictures were there. I saw a notice of the opening of their exposition and the names of several artists of N.Y. were mentioned but mine was not among them. I also wrote Church that we would come on Monday or Tuesday if Gertrude was well enough. In the afternoon Breyer and I went down to Steep Rocks and I made a sketch of an old house on the shore. Jake Swart was nasty because some one   

Transcription Notes:
e confirmed the following hard to read names: "Sea from Shore" & others confirmed to be names of his paintings; Mt Mansfield - in Brit Col. Canada; Whittredge = a close friend; Bolton = town on Lake George Tuckerman = friend, VP of Met Hussey Hill - near Rondout NY where he lives. Passture is likely the word in the third paragraph of McEntee's journal.