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71 had a pleasant time and been reasonably successful in fishing. I brought some fish home with me. Friday and Saturday I spent at home doing many little things, among others wrote to Mrs. Taylor. Sunday, after dinner Sara and I drove up to High Falls, to see Annie and her people. Just after we reached there we had a hard shower and a heavy wind squall. We staid to tea and reached home at half past 8. I came down to town this morning by the fast train and Pa was to start for Uncle Phillips and Perry today. I thought so much about darling Gertrude while I was at home and shed many, many bitter tears in my longing for her. I seem to be nearer her there but I am very sad most of the time. The moment I see any thing connected with her a sense of her absence sweeps over me with a desolating force that I cannot resist. It is so lonely here on my return that it takes me some time to get accustomed to it. I have just received a note from Whitelaw Reid telling me that Mrs. Taylor is staying with him and inviting me to drive with them this evening. I have also received an invitation to Mr. Boardmans wedding on June 2" but do not know what to do about going. - about 4 oclock, after writing a long letter to Mrs. Weir from whom I found a nice letter here on my arrival I walked over to Mrs. Stoddards to give her a little present of table mats which Sara sent to her. Had a nice call with her and then went to see Mary where I staid until six oclock when I went up to Reids to dine with Mrs. Taylor and Lily and Miss Reid. After dinner Galusha A. Grow once speaker of the House of Representatives called, a bright, brisk looking man much younger than I could have imagined. Presently a Dr. Tally of South Carolina, formerly chief of the medical staff of the Confederate Army came in with Mrs. Wm. Walter Phelps. He was a good pattern of the chivalry, talked with the precision of a book but behind all had the southern bigotry and relentlessness. Then Wm. Walter Phelps came in and at 10 o'clock I came away. Booth came in shortly after I got to my room today and staid until nearly two o clock. While he was here Capt. Porter called. He and his wife are at Davids Island but are coming to town on Wednesday when he said Lucy & Andrews are coming. Tuesday May 27. 1879. A letter from Mrs. Sawyer this morning and one from Lily French. She seems to be a good deal worried at the college by their primness and rigidity. I wrote her a long letter trying to encourage her. While I was writing to her Weir came in on his way home from his brothers farm in Orange Co. Have painted a little on another picture of Gertrude
