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and in many ways I was happier there than here. I went down to see Sam Cuykendall Sunday to ask his advice about my money affairs. He very kindly volunteered to send me fifteen hundred dollars to be repaid at my convenience and this morning I went down to his office and got the money, paid a note which was due today and am going to New York tomorrow to pay my rent and shall pay our interest and some other things. But oh the sadness and loneliness here. Lucy has gone with Sedgewick leaving Jamie here. Dear Gertrude is gone never to return and the sadness of it all is almost insupportable. I have had a carpenter come to see about putting a new window in my studio over in my little house and if I do not go away again I shall try to get to work. I wrote to Weir on Friday night and to [[strikethrough]] Lucy [[/strikethrough]] Gussie yesterday. My father and I visited the frigate Minnesota this morning. She is a school ship and lies out at the mouth of the creek

Thursday July 24 1879. Went to New York on Tuesday 22. to pay my rent and because I was restless and unhappy here. Went up to see Eastman who had intended to go to East Hampton the next day but had concluded to go on Thursday. He urged me to go with him and I only wished that I could feel that I could be happy there, I would gladly have gone there. I wrote to Lily French on Tuesday and to Emma, yesterday, because I had not had an opportunity to talk with her about her approaching marriage of which she told me when I was there. Eastman sent Phil Wilson down to Mary's Tuesday night to urge me to come up and spend the night with them which I did and had a pleasant, happy time and I feel the better for having gone. I came home yesterday in the Powell. I told Mr. Nells to rent my room if he could (I mean my parlor) I concluded I ought to give it up and thus save two hundred dollars a year. Today I have paid some bills in Rondout and went to Kingston to pay the interest on our Mortgages. I spoke to Mr. Kenyon about reducing the interest to 6 pr. ct. He told me there was a pressure
all round being brought to bear in that direction but they had done nothing as yet. Received a good letter from Booth from Saratoga, very happy and delighted with his surroundings. This afternoon John & Nannie, Miss Dela[[?]], cousin Rachel, Sara and 
I went by Wallkill Valley R.R. to a pic-nic at [[Renen?]]