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Friday Mar 7. 1879. Went to see Fitch this morning who has paralysis of the face. He saw me but he looked badly and I think ought not to see people. Maurice sent me the Freeman and I saw the notice of the death of Joe Tribbys daughter May who was to be buried today. Poor Joe. I pity him. A letter from Mr. Bates. He regrets he did not buy my little picture last spring. I wrote him he could have it for $200. I think Calvert went to Rondout today. Went  to the theatre this evening with Fred Norton, Annie, Julia, Lily to all engaged. It was very amusing. Agnes Booth and Lewis taking the leading parts and playing them capitally. 

Monday
Tuesday, Mar. 10 Went home Saturday by Wallkill Valley. Sunday I read Gertrudes letters and it seemed to me I missed her more than I ever have before. I could not seem to be resigned to her loss and I passed through an agony of grief. Before I left on Saturday I saw in the the following notice of Mrs. Holt's death. She was a beautiful woman and I feel a new sense of loss in her death although I really seldom saw her. Gertrude admired her greatly and I love to think of them together in some immortal realm that we may dream of but not know. I could not but be very sad at home and I am afraid I distress them all with my trouble. Time I hope will bring me peace and perhaps other interests will have more attraction to me. I came down Monday by Hudson River road my father driving me over on the ice in a wagon. It was very warm and spring like and the ice cannot last long. I heard a dear little robin sing at home in the morning and oh what a flood of sweet and sad and tender memories it brought to me. When I got in the train I found Major Wilkinson and Julia with their two children Rob and Emily on

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MRS. HENRY HOLT.
Mrs. Mary Florence Holt, wife of Henry Holt, the publisher, died on Thursday evening at the residence of her husband, No. 14 East Fifty-fourth-st. Mrs. Holt had been feeble for several months from chronic neuralalgia. This assumed an acute form about ten days ago, and, joined with an affection of the heart, resulted in her death.

Mrs. Holt was the daughter of James Selby West, and was born in New-York in 1844. The greater part of her life was passed in this city. In June, 1863, she was married to Henry Holt. Of their seven children, four are now living. Mrs. Holt was of a strong domestic disposition, being devoted to the care, and especially the mental training, of her children. There was one hour in the day which she always marked out for talks with them and she never would allow any other engagement to interfere with this. During her last illness three of her children were sick from scarlet fever, and her anxiety for them is thought to have hastened her death. She was recognized as a woman of more than ordinary ability and of a happy and entirely unselfish disposition. [[/newspaper clipping]]

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