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I don't know what I am to do here this whole summer. I want to keep actively at my profession and yet it seems so difficult with so many cares and distractions. Calvert came up by the 3:30 train.

Sunday May 27" 1883.- A beautiful day with a rich clean air. Shortly after breakfast Calvert, Downing and I started on a walk. We went across by the country through the tunnel and across the bridge. A barge full of men was at work near the south end of the bridge. We went in at the house on the back of Hussey Hill and clear to the top, but could not see out. Returning we came down the valley of the brook opposite Wilbur and along the shore to the ferry giving Park a good chance to swim, and crossing the ferry got home at 1 o'clock.

Monday 28. Downing and I went to the end of the cemetery where I made a sketch looking up the creek. But my sketches from nature discourage me they look so flat and colorless. The color was charming today and there were fine skies but I missed them as I usually do. I always feel melancholy after making a sketch because I come so very far short of the charm of nature. I wonder if other artists feel the disappointment to the same extent. After dinner Calvert and I went up through Wiltwyck Cemetery to the new station and returned through John OReillys place where I had never been before. It looked ruinous and desolate. It seems to me that in a city like this such a property ought to command a purchaser and not lie idle so many years. I have all I can do to keep from feeling despondent and unhappy.

Tuesday 29." Went to New York by noon train. Stopped to see Mary and from there to Hendersons to buy some plants for our flower garden and for the cemetery. Then I went up to Eastman Johnsons according to agreement and staid with him one night.

Wednesday 30. At 10:30 he and I took the Hudson train for Mr Butlers at Scarsdale where we had been invited with the G.B. Club to lunch and spend Decoration Day. On the train met Gordon, Judge Spier, Lord, Collins, Whittredge, Southmayd, Judge Sedgwick, Dr. Otis, Drisler Marbury and Newberry. Dr. Parker Jr. and Mrs. Dr. Stevenson were at the house. Had a very pleasant day and

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