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wrote to her.

Thursday Mar. 23. 1876
I hardly closed my eyes all last night. I think owing to drinking a cup of tea at Mr. Frothinghams. I was utterly miserable and all my anxieties came over me with redoubled force. Booth sat to me again today and I got interested in my picture and advanced it considerably. He seems very hopeful of the result and has no doubt of my ability to do them all nicely. Mary & Calvert breakfasted with me, I had a talk with Calvert who encouraged me and I feel better. We dined together and went up and called on Prof. Joy who has been ill all summer and who with his family is going to Stockbridge to live for the winter. I feel myself visibly losing my hold on the city and long for the time to come when I can live most of the time in the country.

Friday 24. Ordered a frame for Julia Dillon and also one for myself for my picture 24 x 42 which I am about completing, Selleck is to do them. To have hers for Christmas and mine by Dec. 15". May is to go home today and I shall miss her. It is not good for me to be alone here in my present depressed condition and I am glad to have any of my helpers here. I had a talk with Snedecor today about buying the pictures of American Artists. He has not the capital but he thinks it will eventually come to that. Booth called but not to sit as he has had a long rehearsal and was not well. I am at work on my landscape and having had a good nights rest feel a great deal more hopeful today.

Saturday 25. Calvert and I went to the unveiling of the Webster Statue at the Central Park but the crowd was so great that I could not get near and I walked back to my studio. Painted a little on my picture. Miss Vanderlyn called to see me yesterday but I could not give her much encouragement. [[strikethrough]] Last [[/strikethrough]] This evening I went to see Booth in Hamlet and occupied his box alone most the time. Went to his dressing room after the third act. He is to sit to me tomorrow. I had such a delightful, hopeful letter from Gertrude just before I left for the theatre. It is astonishing 

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Statue of Daniel Webster installed in Central Park in 1876