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picture I painted for him for one like it. I also received a check for $50 from Moore who still owes me $65. which it seems like pulling teeth to get. Spent a couple of hours over at John McEntees and Gertrude and I went to church with my mother, the first time I have been in the Presbyterian church. Mr. Blauvelt came up while I was trimming my hedge yesterday and I had quite a conversation with him. He was at the Literary Club last night. I was agreeably surprised to find so many bright men there. Certainly Kingston is improving.

Monday Jun 21. 1875. Finished trimming my hedge this forenoon. After dinner made a sketch of a little girl who came here begging from Stony Hollow, which will be very useful in my landscapes. If I had a studio I would try to get these little figures very often. Gertrude and I called at the Lindsleys and at Mr. Clarks and then drove to Kingston. Received notice from Wilmurt that my frames would all he sent to my room today.

Tuesday 22. Sent a letter to Girard telling him I would go to New York tomorrow and to ask Mr. Hoe to come to my studio on Thursday. Walked up to Kingston to pay the interest on my mortgage. Stopped to see George Stevens in his new store and at the new city Hall. The Clerk showed me the Common Council room and the Supreme Court rooms which are nicely fitted up and decorated. The building impressed me as an excellent one, well built, well designed and adapted to its uses.

Saturday 26". I went to New York on Wednesday to get my pictures ready for Chicago and Louisville. Sent 8 to Chicago and 3 to Louisville. Dined at Eastman Johnsons Tuesday, went up to Vaux's Friday and stayed over night and he and I came up with the morning train this morning he going to Catskill. Thursday and Friday were intensely hot in N.Y. Mr. Buckley Eastmans brother-in-law called on me and he and Girard lunched with me ysterday. Girard told me of Mannces return from Havana and that he was not to go back - in fact just the discouraging accounts that I had anticipated. I found him here when I got home as well as my fathers three brothers and Uncle Patricks daughter Gertrude. Calvert is perplexed with a hostility to him in the Park Commission which his many years of faithful service had not shielded him from. Frank Weeks and Robt. De Forest called on me in N.Y. and De Forest spoke to me about the Danger Signal which I showed him, leaving his offer open to me until next winter. Mary enjoys her new home on the Palisades and has no desire to go away. The children were all at home. A letter 

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