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them comfortable here however.
 
Wednesday Jan. 8" 1879. Freds wife came in with her nurse & child after breakfast and Mary also. I had a carriage and took them to the 11 o'clock train for Boston, got them a little separate room in the Drawing room car and bade them good bye. I shall miss the dear little baby to whom I have grown greatly attached. I hope they will get home without any trouble. It is a mild grey day and very favorable for them. After I left them I went out and did some errands. It is raining this evening. I dined at Marys. Calvert came home from Albany where he has been to attend the reception at the New Capitol. I wrote to Mrs. Taylor this evening.

Thursday 9. It rained this morning when I went up to Marys to breakfast and has rained hard all day. My man came and colored my blinds and the floor and I changed the caned seat over under the window and put the cabinet where the seat was and the lounge where the cabinet stood, and I think I am going to like the new arrangement. I had a note from Lucy. It poured when I went up to dinner but when Calvert and I went around to the club where I went to attend a meeting of the trustees it was snowing and growing cold. At the club I met Collins, Marbury, Judge Speir, Eastman Johnson, Mr. Gordon, Hall & several others. It is getting bitterly cold and another cold wave is approaching. I read over some of Gertrudes letters to me in 1875, written daily, a full record of her daily life and each one filled with her undying love for me. How near they brought me to her, making it seem almost as though I had talked with her. I feel lonely and a little despondent tonight, a little disappointed I know not why.

Friday 10. Very cold. Went to the dentists at 9½. The rest of the day I spent in my room doing various things, reading Gertrudes letters and being very near near her again as I always am when I read her loving words. Dined at Eastman Johnsons and spent a very