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(Becket) a German music teacher who made us laugh most heartily. Thursday I took Lucy and came up to Eastmans where we had a short but very pleasant visit. I left the ladies at Altmans to do their shopping and I went about my affairs. That night I slept at my rooms for the first time and I was not at all lonely or sad as I was afraid I would be. Got up early and went to breakfast at Marys at 7. Friday went to Eastmans again. Saw Pinchot and Warren. Warren asked after Gertrude in utter ignorance of her death and was so shocked when I told him and so Dr Browne the dentist where I went for some work. Had a man come to arrange blinds for my studio window. Shopped with Lucy and in the evening we all went around to Julias. Saturday the Wilkins & Lucy to lunch when we went out together to get the trimmings for the curtains. Parted with the Wilkins at Arnold & Constables and took a carriage to Grand Central depot. Lucy & I came home in the 4 o'clock train. Have written a long letter to Alice today, and one to Gussie. Sent Dr. Hedenberg his bill ($24.) I have thought so much of Gertrude today. In New York got from  Loop the little head of her painted in 1862 and also the drawing. The head in oil is very pretty and in many respects like her. I am so glad to have it and it brings her youth so vividly to me. 

I have spent all of this evening reading Gertrudes letters to me after our engagement. They brought her in her girlhood and those hopeful, happy days very close to me. It is so sweet to read her loving words and to live again that happy, happy experience. 

Monday 16. In the morning went down town to do many errands. It was cold last night and froze very hard. Got my little axes which I intend for presents to our guides in the Maine woods and after I came back made little boxes to send them and marked them so as to send them tomorrow. Helped Tom clear the drain which had got stopped. Wrote letters to George Daisey and to John Sanford and one to Wilmont and sat up until 12 o'clock reading Gertrudes letters. They bring her so near me. I was greatly touched by one she wrote me from Uncle Bens after I left there. She