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Monday [[strikethrough]] Tues[[/strikethrough]] March 12" 1883.
Downing and I walked down to the post office and around where the Cornell Store houses burned. They are rapidly rebuilding them and the charred skeleton of the "City of Catskill" lies in front, imbedded in the ice. We went along the dock through the snow & water, for it was thawing clear up to the high bridge which they are pushing ahead. Then up through the tunnel and home by the cemetery where I saw from the path dear Gertrudes grave covered with snow from which the stalks of last years flowers appeared. What unutterable thoughts it brought to me. 

Tuesday 13. Mary, Gussie, Downing, Girards wife and Charlie and little Girard took a ride. The wind blew from N.W. We went to Kingston to do some marketing and drove out on the Saugerties road to the road near Aunt Katrines where we crossed over to the Flat bush road and home by the Alms House. Every where they are cutting down the woods. The thick woods just above the Flat bush hill are being cut to our sorrow. I came down by the 6.16 train crossing on the Ferry boat which has a track through the ice. My visit home has been a most sad one for we are full of trouble and anxiety both on account of my mothers condition and our cramped financial situation. Still I was glad to be with my sisters as I always am. The look ahead seems full of trouble. Still real estate is coming into market and if we can only hold on until we can sell some of our property we will get along. 

Wednesday 14. Awoke with a bad feeling in my head which lasted all day. Still I painted all day and at last I think I have finished Fullers picture. Now it remains to be seen whether he will take it. He is very peculiar and may want me to make lots of alterations. I wrote to Gill that I had a study of the picture I had in his exhibition which I thought as good as the larger one which I would sell for $300 or if he could sell it for that he might return me $250 and would send it to him if he thought he could sell it. My Franklin smoked so badly that I got Dan to help me take it down and take the piece of pipe out of the flue which was just in for the stove. It seems to have cured the smoking. Calvert and I called at [[?]] Henri Burns and saw him and his wife and Mrs. Holder. 

Thursday 15. Worked on Fullers picture which he bought at auction for $140. It is one I painted in 1872 and sold to a Mr. Wood for $400. Wrote to him I had finished his other picture and asked him to come and see it. It has been so warm and pleasant that I have not needed a fire in my room but when I went to dinner it was growing cold. Calvert, Julia, Marion and I went to the Goddard's to some private theatricals. Met Mrs. Stone, Mrs Youmans who had broken her arm and many others. 

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