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Sanguinaria and then drove over to the Pine bush road and home. In the afternoon I took off the double sashes from the house. Julia and I came to N.Y. by the 6 oclk train and reached the house at 9 30. The first question they asked us was whether we had seen anything of Downing. He had started for the office but just before he went, after breakfast he received a letter from Edwina and after reading it went out with his satchel and spring overcoat, intending to come home from the office in the Bible house, to which they have just moved, to lunch. About noon Calvert sent up to know if there were any reason only Downing was detained. They sent around to his room at 15" St & Irving Place to see if he were there but he was not. This alarmed them and they went to all the hospitals but to no purpose. Julia asked if they had been to his room that evening. She thought he might be there. Calvert immediately went there and found he had been there about 7 oclock. The servant had seen him and heard him in his room pouring out water as if washing himself and he then went out. Calvert found his overcoat and his satchel which he had taken in the morning. In it were some foreign copper coins, evidently left in a side pocket of the satchel since he returned from Europe, and his revolver, empty. It had not been fired recently and there were no cartridges. The Superintendent of police had been seen and he advised not sending out a general alarm until tonight. I staid in the front parlor of the house in which Downing had his room, all night, in case he should return. In the morning when I went out to breakfast I met Calvert on the sidewalk. He had been in the vicinity all night watching the house.

Tuesday May 8. No tidings. Mary and I walked through the city parks after I had been to the dentists. Bowyer went to the Battery and to Staten Island. It was very warm and after Mary and I got back to the house I had a fainting attack, from the heat and loss of sleep and anxiety I presume, which however passed off after a while. The Doctor was called but I had recovered. I slept in Downings room in case he should return. It was very sad to see his belongings 

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cant make out name of flower at top of page/ I think it is sanguinaria E 15th Street and Irving Place intersect in NYC; 75th doesn't so concluded it was a 15 ---------- Reopened for Editing 2023-03-25 19:08:12 ---------- Reopened for Editing 2023-03-30 22:36:26