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til the train came along at 8.44. It will be lonely here without them and we will miss the children. Great changes may occur before we meet again and I am always saddened by these partings.

Monday Sept. 25. 1882. The masons finished today. My painter did not come as the weather was threatening and it rained in the afternoon. The papers are filled with accounts of the devastation of the great storm and floods. A letter from Downing telling me what pictures I have in my studio. I wrote to him and sent him Booths letter. Maurice still in seclusion. I cannot bear to see him. I get so indignant thinking what we have to endure that I try not to think of it. I dont think it right that one person should be allowed so to torment a whole household.

Tuesday 26. The painter came today. I am getting anxious to see the end as I want to get at my sketching. A letter from Calvert. Will join me but cannot say when. Went down to Johns with Sara and proposed to him and Nannie to go to Manchester Vt. on Thursday to meet the Appalachian club with which I have never yet met. Maurice appeared today but I cannot bear to look at him.

Wednesday 27. I regret my inability to work now that there are so many things to be done but my side pains me when I exercise too much particularly in stooping. I paid the mason today whose bill was of course much larger than I expected. Got Maurice to sign the vouchers and the check for Downing which I sent to him. John & Nannie cannot go to Manchester and so Sara and I are going alone if the weather proves fair.

Saturday 30 Sara and I went to Manchester Vt. on Thursday to meet with the Appalachian Club about 90 of whom came in from Boston. The weather was threatening and cold. We went to F.H. Orris' Equinox house where arrangements had been made for us. On Friday we ascended Mt. Equinox about 3000 feet above the valley. It rained a little and a part did not reach the top. I walked up the front and Sara who rode part way up returned with me. Today we went to see Aunt Sue Pettibone who makes the maple candy and found her a quaint character. She and her husband live alone and from what she told us they are very poor. We left for home at 1 o'clock with a car load who returned to Boston and reached here about 8 having missed the connection at Troy. Met some pleasant people, notably Mrs. Dr. Pinkham of Lynn (no relation of Lydia) I did not know a person in the party Prof. Fay not having come. I found the gentlemen rather stiff and formal and was a little disappointed in this respect, but still we enjoyed our trip

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