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been at work among my old letters have have them nearly all arranged. By and bye I will look them over again and destroy some of them. The weather is very mild but threatening. Today it rained a little. Mr. Terry called yesterday and borrowed my Faust. I had a most kind and feeling letter from Calverts sister Emily today. It was a great satisfaction to be so affectionately remembered by her after so many years and through so many changes. I had a note from Mary telling me poor little Marian is ill in bed with a cold. Wrote to Mary and to Mrs. Winter.
 
Friday Nov. 22. 1878. It has rained violently all day with the wind from the N.E. I went over to my little studio at the other house and have been busily engaged all day getting my magazines together to have them bound and overlooking the trunks and boxes we left there. I came across so many things that were so redolent of our life in that sweet little house, among others the box in which were all our letters written during our courtship and the letter I wrote to Mr. Sawyer and his reply after we had talked of the day of our marriage. O' how these little things thrilled me to the very depths of my should. I was there alone and the wild storm was raging without but the sunshine of all our married life was about me and Gertrude was with me transfigured by it. This evening I read my father and mother my letter to Mr. Sawyer and his reply and a copy of a letter to Dr. Pelton describing our Balsam Lake trip. I tried to read one of my first letters to Gertrude on the first anniversary of our marriage, but I could not. She was visiting at her fathers in N.Y. and her absence from our little home suggested and foreshadowed what I am experiencing now. Bonyer sent me my new diary which I ordered when he was here. Sara and I sat in the parlor and talked of Gertrude until late. I love so to talk of her.
 
Saturday 23. I went down to Rondout this morning and ordered a suit of clothes from Mr. Welch for thirty dollars. I also made a drawing for some little axes I want to send to our guides of the Maine Woods for Christmas presents and ordered four at Mr. Crowlys. He is to have them nicely made for me. I also went