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Sunday July 2. 1876.
We have been hard at work getting the house in order the past week. I had a man come up from Becks to hang the paper in our room, in the little hall bedroom and the upper & lower halls. He came on Wednesday afternoon and by Friday afternoon he had completed it all fully short of border which he is to send up and I am to put on. He was an excellent workman and I made a note of his name (John Struthers) in case I want to employ him again. Thursday having received a note from Booth I went to New York on the Powell to meet him at my room. He was looking remarkably well. We had lunch together in my room and a good long talk. He is very anxious to have me make some sketches of him in his principal characters and seems to think I can do it better than any one else. I told him how little I had practiced the figure and how much I distrusted my ability but he persists in having me try it. Mary, Gussie, Julia, Dwight and Joe lunched in Vaux's room. Gus and Joe had been to the Centennial with Dwight and were going to start for Hillsboro that evening. Dwight, Julia & Calvert were going in with them. I came back with Mr. Powell. The evening before Gertrude and I had stopped to inquire about Mrs. Lindley who has been very ill and found that there was no hope of her recovery. She died on Thursday after years of ill health leaving poor Mr. Lindley alone except that he has his daughter's two children. The funeral took place yesterday. I do not dare to think of his desolate home today. Girard and Mary and their boy came up last evening by the Powell for the summer I presume. We got our room and the hall in order nearly yesterday and the result is 

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