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The pretty, soft creamy white dress Lucy made for her and put a becoming cap upon her head. White was always very becoming to her and today she had a good deal of color and looked very pretty. I painted her in the dining room where there is always a good light. She sat very patiently in her invalid chair and I succeeded in getting a very good picture of her, much better than I was ever able to get before. She was much pleased with it as were my father and Sara. It is a great satisfaction to me to have secured this in her precarious condition for we had no satisfactory portrait of her, not even a good photograph. It is not all I want but it can be improved with another sitting and I am very thankful to have made it. - The subject of bell ringing in turns is being discussed in the Tribune, Jackson Schultz having complained of St. Georges Church in the city. I have written a communication to the Tribune which I shall send need down to John McEntees  this evening. It has been a cloudy day and quite cold. The landscape has a November aspect.

Monday Oct. 22: 1883. Mr. Parnell the carpenter came this morning as agreed and we have been at work all day pulling down the old wood house preparatory to moving it down below the barn. It has been an exquisite day. Downing returned today having spent Sunday with Mrs. Newell at Fishkill. A letter from Lucy today gave an account of a visit from Lieut. Ray and Dr. Oldmoten who have just returned from Point Barrow, within the Arctic circle where they have been the past two years.

Tuesday 23. We moved the old wood-house, on the wagon in sections this morning and tonight it is in its new position all ready to put the sheathing on for the shingles. I went down town during the forenoon to purchase, shingles, nails and many other things. It is nearly two months since I was there. The place had quite a city air with the new Cornell building approaching completion. The streets were all dug up laying the water pipes and there was an air of business and prosperity. I trimmed the Spitzenbergh apple tree down at the end of the garden. It has been a gray day and tonight it is raining. A letter from Booth mainly about his things which I am to send also a letter from Conkey in which he says a letter from his friend in Detroit who had spoken of buying my picture there, had written him that he was in the exhibition a few days ago and it was marked "sold" which I hope is true although I have not heard of it from the Exhibitions people.
Wednesday 24. It rained hard nearly all night and was still threatening this morning. One of the carpenters came but Parnell

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