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then down and went to work and made a sketch of a fine quiet grey sky out of the window. Every day new the clouds gather and the landscape lies in shadow most of the time. I received a note from Hasen Putnam enclosing one from his aunt in which she regretted not seeing us when we called thinking we were to be at the hotel, where she sent her carriage the next day for us to take a ride and to invite us to her house. He also said he had written to Sarony who had asked the price of my little pictures in their window but had as yet not heard from him. As I am in need of money I have written Sarony, who is a genuine artist, to tell him that I would like the money for my pictures and that if he wants to buy them I will let him have them at considerably less than my price. I hear there are so many strangers in New York now that I think it would be well for me to go down and be in my studio for a while in hopes that I might sell something

Tuesday Sept. 26" 1876. Laura is very ill with a fever and we are much troubled about her. Sara thinks she is a little better today but I fear she will have a long illness. My father went off up the canal on Saturday to be gone two or three days and we have had two rainy days. Sunday and today. Sunday afternoon I called on Sam Cuykendall and spent an hour with him. He told me about his business projects, showed me his pictures and two of his children whom I asked to see and seemed pleased that I came to see him. I have concluded upon mature reflection and after a talk with Gertrude and my father also to go to New York on Monday next Oct. 2. It will

Transcription Notes:
. Napoleon Sarony, lithographer, 1821-1896. per instructions: if a word is hyphenated because it goes across two lines, type it out as one word