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me to come there first and I have written him tonight I would and will leave here on Tuesday and be there Wednesday. Have also written Mr. Bachelder that I will go to Nantucket first. I have felt very lonely this afternoon and have been reading some of dear Gertrudes letters of 1876. The more I think of her the more I am impressed with her rare and loving nature and the more I feel how blessed my life has been with her. It seems to me there could not have been a sweeter woman in the whole world and while the world can never seem bright to me again I am very thankful for the happy years we were together and for her devoted love which grew from year to year and was deepest for me at the last.

Friday Sept 3 1880. It has been a very hot day. Have been packing my trunk to see if I could take all my things and reading. We are looking for Sara and Jamie tomorrow morning. Mrs. Taylor was here at tea and I walked home with her and spent an hour with the rector.

Saturday 4. Went over to Rhinebeck to meet the St. Louis train which was half an hour late but brought Sara and Jamie. We did not get home until after 9 o'clock. Sara had not heard of Giffords death and was quite overcome when I told her. It has been one of the hottest days of the season. I have had such a kind letter from Mary Gifford in answer to mine of Wednesday. Gifford had told her many things in his last days which he usually was very reticent about. Told her how much money he had let his brothers and nephews have and remitted it all About the money I owed him and wished that to be remitted also, placing me as Mary kindly said with his brothers. He told her he had always led a frugal life in order to have an independent old age and to be able to help a friend, and I am sure he would stint himself to help any one he loved. 

I wrote her a long letter in reply and tried as well as I could to express my sense of his generous and loving remembrance of me. He was a most rare man, possessing the very noblest qualities and was always helping some one quietly and unostentatiously.

Sunday 5. Sara Jamie and I went over to the cemetery after breakfast to see the stone and to put some flowers on dear Gertrudes grave. From there Jamie and I went down to the creek across the Commons to give Park a swim. It was intensely hot and has been a very warm day. Have written to Pell from when I had a letter on Tuesday, to Mary and to Lucy. It seems so pleasant to have Sara home again. Fletcher Broadhead died today and Harvey Otis was buried.

Monday 6. Another hot day. Have been getting ready to leave tomorrow. A letter from Lucy and a short note from Eastman. Very warm day.