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near future. I cannot share them wholly. Attended a meeting of the Common Council at which the annual assessment of taxes was to be considered. In this city we are assessed at the actual value of property while in the rest of the county the old rates have been adhered to or at best a slight increase thus unjustly largely increasing our share of taxation. The Mayor decided that the Council had no jurisdiction, which I think sound but a public sentiment has been aroused which must accomplish some plan of relief. Rachel Carle is here trying to do something in the way of coloring photographs by some new process, and while I feel sorry for her I confess it is very irksome to have to listen constantly to the troubles of others while we have so many anxieties of our own to bear. Wrote to Whittredge on the 12" and received a letter from him a few days ago. he has decided to go on the coast near Newport somewhere and was to go on Thursday. Will write me as soon as he gets settled. Received a letter from Church anxious to have me go to Maine in the region of Mt Katahdin with him. As I had previously declined to go, thinking I dare say I could not afford it, he very delicately asks me to paint him a little sketch and to let him pay my expenses in return. I shall have to decline while I recognise his friendly intention. In the first place I must go somewhere to work and not to merely enjoy myself and in the second place it would be most embarassing to go in this way. The anxious days are beginning to settle down upon me. Out of all the money I have earned the past year more than $6,000 I have almost nothing left to go sketching and we are so pressed here at home for money that I fear what little 

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