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Thursday evening pretty well tired out. Wednesday we fished down the stream but the water was so low and clear that we caught only a very few. In the afternoon we went up stream to the upper burnt bridge and fished down but with almost no success. We left for home Thursday morning at 8 and reached home by 4, going around by Hills Mill as they are peeling bark in the Gulf and the road is obstructed with logs. Weeks left for New York this morning. It was lucky we came home yesterday for it began to rain in the night and has poured ever since. Found Larry Stoddard here. His father brought him up Tuesday. Weeks told me Robb Deforest would like to buy my Danger Signal if it came within his means. He could spend five hundred dollars, but felt a delicacy in broaching the subject. I told him I was going to send it to Chicago and if I did not sell it there I thought on its return I would let him have it, but could not promise to unconditionally and so it is to be left open until next fall. The money question is the all important one as usual and I have to look as far ahead as possible.

Friday June 18, 1875  We had a pouring rain all day Mr Weeks went home in the 9 oclock train. A letter came to Maurice from John Andrews which we opened. He had gone a days journey from Camp to meet Lucy.  Had just talked with the stage driver who had passed them on the road. They were all well and would reach him about 10 oclock that night. His letter was written June 2". We will hear of their arrival in a day or two. Wrote to Calvert and to Wilmurt.

Sunday 20. Spent yesterday in trimming my hedge. Cut down about two feet the piece from the gate near the house towards the woods and found it a laborious work. In the evening Gertrude, Sara and I attended a meeting of the Literary Club at Dr. Frisselles. Mr. Demarest read the essay on the "Spirit of the Age" taking the ground that the distinguishing Spirit of the Age was its mechanical one. It was well written and caused no little discussion in which nearly all took part. Today I had a dull headache in the forenoon but it disappeared after dinner. I wrote to Gerard from whom I had a letter yesterday. He told me that Mr. Hoe had spoken in the most enthusiastic terms of my Academy picture and said it was the best picture of its kind he had seen since he left America two years ago and wants to exchange the last