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76 spent the evening there. Hall dined there also. Saw Lawrence this morning and offered to let him have my upper room if he needed it. Is to let me know. Mary went to Rondout yesterday and took Marion. Sara went to Boston. Cadet Arther Charles Ducat graduated from West Point Thursday June 12. 1879. Went to see Dr Joscelyn this morning. Had painted all day touching up several of my pictures. Wilmont called to see me this morning about pictures for St. Louis. I have promised him my Autumn Idyl and the small study for the Falling Leaves. Renner was in to get a picture for Cincinnati too. I did not promise anything but will try to send something. Hatfield came to tell me that the Boston man who he brought here some time ago will be in town in a day or two and he is to bring him here again. I am in hopes he will like the "Falling Leaves" I lent my "Kaatskill Brook" to the Union League Club this evening, but I have never sold anything there. Went to see the Booths this evening. Gifford and his wife came also and we spent the evening. Monday 16. Went home Saturday by Powell. Calvert went along. Sunday kept pretty quiet with the boil on the inside of my knee troubling me. Calvert and I walked over to the cemetery. My thoughts were with Gertrude as they always are when I am at home and Grace and Mary and I talked of her a great deal. This is the season of roses and they were her favorite flower. Over at my deserted house some of the roses she planted many years ago were in bloom and going about the place brought back our early married life then. My affection for the place now is very strong I find because she loved it so. She always hoped we might live there again, dear Gertrude. The flying months do not make me forget but they satisfy her sweet memory in my soul and sometimes I feel soften the sorrow of her loss. I could not talk of her yesterday without tears but I am better able much of the time to speak of her than I have been. Calvert and I returned this morning by the Powell. Just before I went on Saturday I made a small charcoal sketch of a figure of a girl watering a row of flowers suggested by seeing Gertrude water her roses sometimes after she was dressed for the afternoon washing out with the watering pot and holding back her skirts with the other hand. Mr. Clark came to see me. He said nothing about the picture but I told him I was expecting a person in every day to look at it and if he did not buy it I would try to let him have it. Tuesday 17. The weather is cool and delightful. Having a strong feeling of doubt that mine is an actual case of Hernia I determined to have Dr Otis examine me and went up to his office this morning. He was not in but he called to see me this afternoon and made an examination. He could discover nothing whatever, advised me to leave off the truss until tomorrow when I am to see him again. What would I not give to be pronounced sound again. Vanderliss called and brought an early sketch of mine which he wants me to paint from in
