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but Lucy is ill, Sade and I attending Alice and the baby so that we could not go. Nannie sent Sara and me each a beautiful bouquet of flowers. I wrote a letter to Mr. Geo. H. Wells for Pa and also a letter to Church. 

Thursday Jan. 2. 1879. Specie resumption goes into effect today and there is no doubt of its success. I staid with the baby last night and she got along better than I feared she would. She was very troublesome today and Alice being still ill and very anxious I telegraphed to her husband to come and also wrote to Mrs. Sawyer. It has snowed hard nearly all day and this evening a gale from the N.W is blowing and drifting the snow. I had a letter from Whitelaw Reid telling me all about Bayard Taylors financial affairs which seem to be better than I feared. I also had a letter from George Daisey my guide in the Maine woods. He had received the axes I sent the men and seemed much pleased.

Friday 3. The wind has blown a gale all day from the N.W. and the air has been full of drifting snow. I drove down town after dinner on some business, in a sleigh. While I was gone a telegram was received from Mr. Knight from New Haven saying he would come up on the 6 o'clock train. No boat goes over to that train and he will be compelled to remain over there all night. Alice and the baby have been very bright today, but the little nurse girl was obliged to leave. It is a very wild night and I am thankful for this cozy fireside where I sit alone in the parlor. I thought such nights would bring me unhappy suggestions of Gertrude out in the cold and the snow, but they do not. I cannot think of her there. The elements cannot harm her and yet she is so far beyond my protection. I cannot help the feeling of waiting to be with her again. I had a letter from John Sanford today in which he spoke of my bereavement with touching and eloquent tenderness