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Wednesday Sept. 22. 1880. Went to Marblehead and spent a couple of hours walking about the town which I found quaint and interesting. Alice's baby was christened "Gertrude" this evening by Mr. Leonard who christened Bella nearly two years ago when dear Gertrude was there. I carried her down in my arms as she was too ill to walk. All that sad time was most vividly recalled to me tonight and I was very much affected and found it difficult to control my feelings. Indeed all the time I was here I could not help thinking very much of dear Gertrudes last days and the room where I found her sitting beside the bed crying and looking so ill on my return from Maine and which I occupied now seemed almost to be filled with her dear presence. 

Thursday 23. Had a note from Mr. Chickering telling me he would be ready for me and by previous appointment I went to Boston and met him at his office. He told me his wife was ill and his little daughter had a slow fever and he seemed really distressed and disappointed. At first I thought I would not go out at all but he wished me to and I concluded to spend the night with him at his country house. We dined together and then went to call on Porter who was not in and on Munzig whom we saw. Also on Ordway and then to the Providence Depot. As we reached the street from the Studio Building we met Annie and Fanny Lee whom I wanted to see and whose address I had failed to get. When we got to the cars they came in the same car on their way to Jamaica Plains where they had just moved and I sat near them and had a pleasant chat with them. Mr. Chickering lives at Wilton and the station is Readville. We walked to the house a distance of perhaps a mile. Took a ride and had tea having previously met his daughter & Mother-in-law. Had a cigar together in the evening and retired early

Friday 24. Had a day or two received a letter from Richard Butler written a week before telling me I was appointed on a committee to collect and arrange Giffords pictures for exhibition at the Art Museum and although I had written Butler