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and one to Pember and Prouty who have written me that they will not be able to get more than two dollars each for my beaver skins. I gave $2,50 for them in Omaha and wrote them I would not sell them for that. I am going to give them to Sara to have a sacque made of them.

Monday Nov 17. 1879. Painted on the sketch of Mary today. This evening Mary, Sara and I went over to the cemetery and Sara put some dry autumn flowers and plants on Gertrudes grave. I do not get at all accustomed to the strangeness of doing these things for Gertrude. It seems like something unreal to me. We covered the violets Lucy gave me, with the dead leaves and then we went for a walk around the cemetery towards Kingston and home through O Reillys field. I had a letter from Pell today and one from Mrs. Weir. She tells me Lily is still at home not having been able to go back to college on account of her eyes.

Tuesday 18. Rained and snowed by turns all day with the wind from the N.E. I spent the forenoon hanging a bell from the front door. In the afternoon I went to my studio and made a drawing of the full length figure of Gertrude I made ten years or more ago. Had a nice letter from Booth who is playing at the Grand Opera House to crowded houses. He wants me to paint him in Don Caesar, Petruchio and Benedick. I wrote him a note tonight. - Have been reading over some of darling Gertrudes letters of a year ago last winter. When I long for her and grieve for her I find a comfort in reading the loving messages she never tired of writing to me but which after all did not half express her love for me.

Thursday 20. Mary and I left home for N.Y. by morning train. Snowed before we reached town. Lunched with her and went to studio. Booth had just left. Arranged some of my things and packed others to go home. An excellent letter from Eastman. Called to see Gifford. Jewell and Vedder came in, Vedder just arrived from Europe yesterday

Friday 21. Headache all day so that I had to sit in my chair most of the time. Mary came and washed all my china and glass and arranged it for me in my closet just as dear Gertrude would have done. Booth came and while he was in Aldrich came whom I had not seen since his return from Europe. We talked of many things and much of Brighton and Thompson. Wrote a note to Sherwood to tell him I was in town. Wrote to Sade and to Mrs. Weir as my