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to promise success. Received a note from Mrs. Wheeler asking me to go with her & Mr & Mrs. Thurber to the mountains this evening and to meet them on the Rondout boat. Answered that I could not go with them but would join them next day at Roggens.

Saturday [[strikethrough]] Apl [[/strikethrough]] May 5" 1883. Had my breakfast in my room and went home by 8 oclock train. It rained during the day. Took the Ulster & Delaware train at 245 and went to Phoenicia where I took the Stony Clove road to Tannersville Junction where I found Roggens team for which I telegraphed, waiting for me. The rain had ceased. When I got to Roggens about 6.30. the Thurbers & Mrs. Wheeler had gone up to the place they proposed to buy but soon returned and we had supper together and spent the evening in the parlor together talking of their purchase which they had made about a mile north of Roggens near Parkers. 

Sunday 6" The rain had cleared and the wind blew from the N.W. Snow could be seen in the hollows of the mountains and it was cold. After breakfast at 9 Thurber got a carriage and in company with the carpenter whom they were consulting about a house we drove up to their site a very commanding situation near Parkers where we spent several hours looking over the ground and discussing building. Found some "Spring beauties" and indications of the spring were seen in this high region. Returned to the house and after dinner about 2 30 started in a carriage for Catskill. They are building the rail road to the Mountain houses and Schutts. It crosses the road at Miles Harris saw mill and skirts the slope of the hill to Schutts and is to be finished in June. As we drove down the clove the wind blew and a thousand tender memories of our early visits there with dear Gertrude and Gifford came to me and gave me a sad and homesick feeling. We crossed the West Shore rail road back of Catskill and construction trains were at work on it. At Catskill we crossed and took the train. I got out at Rhinebeck and they went on to N.Y. Crossed in a river boat and reached home about 7.30.

Monday 7. Julia Vaux and I took a ride out on the Flat bush road and gathered a quantity of Hepaticas and 

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