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The dear baby was sitting on the table with his little shoes off looking at his mother Hubbard book to which he immediately called my attention as though he expected me as a matter of course to walk in. Janice told me that the tears rolled out of Lou's eyes when they came away. He left her in charge of his Aunt Gertrude who he said loved her and would be good to her. It breaks my heart to have the dear baby go away so far, for we bid farewell to his sweet baby hood. My father was not well and did not come down. I know what a trial it must have been to him to have them come away My mother brought me a letter from Gertrude full of sorrow for their departure. They must be very lonely there tonight and I shall miss them so when I go home.

Friday Apl 16" 1875. A rainy day. Went with Lucy down to buy her tickets and make final arrangements for her journey. Had the good fortune to get all her baggage checked clear to Omaha free so that her fare to Omaha is only $8 including sleeping car to Chicago and six dollars additional for sleeping car from there to Omaha. Went over to Marys and saw the baby who was delighted to see me and he was so pretty and playful, showed me his new shoes and finally came and sat on my lap and wanted me to take them off and put the old ones on. Dear little fellow how I shall miss him. Girards wife was there with her baby a nice bright little fellow who came to me at once. This evening went up to Eastmans. Wrote to Gertrude when I came back. Church came in yesterday and wanted me to go into his room to see a picture. I thought it was the one he painted for Mr. Hoe. It was very like it, nothing new. The sun in the sky, mountains, tropical vegetation &c. It didnt strike me very forcibly but only as being good in a way he is familiar with

Saturday 17"  My Mother, Mary, Lucy, Marion, Jamie and the baby came over to see me this afternoon. The weather is as cold as winter. I showed baby all over my establishment and when I took him into the parlor and told him here is where Aunt Gertrude lived, he pondered over it very gravely and repeated "Aunty lives"  While they were here my Mother showed me a paragraph she saw in the Tribune this morning saying that all travel over the Pacific R.R. is stopped by high water in Bitter Creek Valley. I immediately went down to the Union Pacific Office and they advised 

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