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I have I shall have to draw on from daily expenses here. I wish I could sell some of the pictures I have in various places, but there seems no likelihood of that and the future with its demands looms darkly ahead of me. I hope Whittredge will find a nice place to sketch and I shall try to join him and in work try to forget my anxieties. Wrote to Booth and to Lucy.

Monday Aug. 27 1877. Have just finished the "Life and letters of McAuley (or rather Macauley) by his nephew Trevelyan in which I have been greatly interested. What an honest, just man, most tender in his family relations, liberal with his money, all of which he earned himself and with a warm susceptible heart which makes him in my estimation one of the best and greatest of men. Never courting popularity and yet winning the confidence and esteem of the nation by his simple integrity of character and his fearlessness in defending his convictions. Any country is blessed which has such men in its councils. They began to cut the corn today.

Sunday Sept. 2 1877. The summer is gone, but as yet there are no traces of autumn save in the ripening of vegetation and a general feeling of a completed harvest. Today is cool and brilliant and with the merest hint of fall. The past week has been very hot and the country is suffering for rain. I received a letter from Whittredge from Newport where he has finally settled down in no enthusiastic mood after wandering about a good deal. He describes the region as rich unlike Gloucester but is not sanguine. I have written him that I shall not go at least until I hear from him again and again I am unsettled and do not know what to do on my limited means. Somehow I always manage to get entirely out of money just as I want to go sketching. I have money coming to me but do not like to ask for it. I wrote to Church a