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paint it. I cant paint it from nature and sometimes I question the use of trying. Often it seems to me better to go and look at it and to get the strong impression of beauty I did today. Still tomorrow if the day prove fine I think I will take my box out and try a beautiful bit I saw today. After dinner my mother, Mrs. Davis, Sara and I went for a ride for I could not bear to shut myself in my studio as I see by the Tribune many of the artists are doing. We drove to the South Rondout ferry but the chain of the ferry boat had caught in a raft of timber and we could not cross. They were preparing to land some of the iron for the high ridge. We drove to Slights ferry, crossed and took the road to Annies then over to the river and home reaching here at dusk. This day has made a strong impression upon me. The view from the porch this morning was very beautiful. "Gertrudes tree" the hickory on the left is a mass of superb rich yellow and the lovely soft greys of the scene beyond it were most exquisite. I received a letter from Mrs. Hewitt from Milwaukee this morning enclosing draft for $600 for my picture "Autumn in Vermont" for which I sent her a receipt and sent the draft to the Bank of the Metropolis to my credit. A letter came from Lucy. We hear nothing from Maurice and I have wondered many times this lovely day where he is and how he is spending it. Wrote Mrs. Hewitt.

Tuesday Oct. 31 1882. Was busy nearly all forenoon going downtown and fixing the stable door which was broken by one of the horses last night. The forenoon was threatening and cloudy. After dinner I went out towards OReillys and made a sketch but the weather was variable and this evening it rains. I would like to have had a day like yesterday but it has been very different. Received a letter from Mary Gifford and one from Weir. Sara and John and Nannie went to a tea party in Kingston. Sent Mrs. Winter the amount of her bill 61.48- Silleck $50. and Wilmont $100.

Wednesday Nov. 1.
Made a sketch this morning looking over Kingston from the rocks back of OReillys. It did not look so beautiful as it did on Monday. My sketches are very unsatisfactory. I dont seem able to get the tones of nature and each sketch I make I hope to do that. This afternoon I took a long walk through Ludlums woods and over the hills to the woods back of steep rocks. The color was most rich and beautiful but the tone was not so sweet and delicate as on Monday. I gathered some beautiful ferns in the place where dear Gertrude and I gathered the last we had, it must have been five years ago. How tenderly I thought of her in the quiet autumn woods once hallowed by her beloved presence. The frost

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