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Tuesday July 20" 1875. We left home Friday July 9" on a visit to Booth and his wife at Cos Cob. and remained there until Friday 16" having had a delightful visit. One day we went fishing and on my birth day we had a pic nic on Field Point a beautiful point running out into the sound. We had delightful drives about the country which is very pleasant and altogether enjoyed ourselves greatly. Booth is more cheerful than he used to be, is very fond of his home and has developed a love for a quiet domestic life which I hardly looked for in him. He has given up all his property and really had barely money enough to pay his daily expenses until October when he begins an engagement in N.Y. He has suffered from a lack of business talent and a too ready trust in men. Pays extravagantly for every thing he buys and has not valued money. I think he has grown wiser and more careful and will henceforth look more carefully after his interests. He is afraid of people, is easily rebuffed being very sensitive or I have no doubt he could have advised with some one who could have saved him but from conversations I had with him I saw how difficult it would be for him to ask assistance from any one even in business. I came away feeling much better acquainted with him than before I had my "October in the Kaatskills" sent up to Mrs. Booth to pay the thousand dollar note I owe him as the interest ($280. 4 years to June 18") with the understanding that as soon as I am able I am to offer him the thousand dollars in money and he may accept it or keep the picture as he chooses. We left in a rain and when we arrived in N.Y. I went to see John Platt the assignee of his estate in reference to an appraisement of his bust of Michael Angelo, Two Bronze Statuettes Don Quixote and Mephistopheles his theatrical engravings and his Sistine Chapel engravings all of which I valued at $200. Platt did not seem inclined to take my valuation at first but finally concluded to if I would make a list of them and make affidavit to them. I have today written to Booth about my interview with Platt.

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