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Julia, Gertrude, Marion, Edith and Helen Reid and Jamie to see my picture. Maurice went to Newport on Thursday to see ((?)) about getting a situation on his survey in the West. He came back yesterday and stopped at the house. He is going and is to report in April. I hope he will be equal to the occasion but have my fears, while I am glad he has another opportunity to try to do something. Called at Pinchots in the evening. Met the Misses [[blank space]] and their brothers and Rev. Dr. Bartlett from Indianapolis. He had just been telling a story about me which Mr. Taylor, the Episcopal clergyman, told. It was all wrong and I had to tell it over. The story of the hog crossing into Vaux's room at Connellys, of Vaux meeting old Mr. Connelly a year after and asking him how the "old hog" was. The old man who had forgotten the incident and thinking he was inquiring about his wife said "I am sorry to say Mrs. Connelly is not well" On my way down called at Platts.

Monday 13 Feb. 1882. Overslept myself this morning and had my breakfast in my room. Has been a dark rainy day. Mrs. Gifford came about noon. Has asked Stedman to edit a volume of Giffords letters &c and asked me if I had any letters which would be interesting. She gave me a letter of Gertrudes to Mary Gifford written from Scribners the fall we came home from Europe, which she found in one of Giffords letters. It was a voice from a far off happy time and sent me off into the past for the rest of the day. I have been reading some of Giffords letters while we were abroad and some of Bayard Taylors, and living again with the loved companions and friends who are gone. I have felt very sad and discouraged and this feeling led me to think of those who used to help me hear all my trials. For a year I have had comparative immunity from money anxieties now they begin to beset me again and I cant be happy as long as this is the case. It is too bad that I cannot be free from this kind of trouble with my modest requirements.

Tuesday 14" When I returned from breakfast this morning I found a note from Sara expressing great anxiety about my mother who has been in feeble health for some time. I am going home by the 4 o'clock train with Jamie. He and I went up to the High bridge, crossed it and returned to lunch with Julia. I am greatly troubled about my Mother. Sara fears paralysis which I have feared for some time. Jamie and I went by by 4 o'clock train. I found my mother helpless her right side having been paralyzed.

Tuesday 21. Calvert came up on Friday and he and I returned to the city by the 6 o'clock train yesterday. My mothers symptoms were more encouraging. Her speech had improved a little and she had some little use of her leg but