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Wednesday Feb. 27" 1884. Painted all day on my cliff picture and improved it. Called on Mrs Frank Weeks in the evening and went to the club a little while.

Thursday 28. It was snowing violently when I went to breakfast this morning and a good deal had fallen. I worked on my cliff picture. Went up to Eastman Johnsons to dinner. Miss Mullany and Ethels music teacher were there all going with Mrs. Johnson to Joseffys concert. Eastman and I went to the Century to the monthly trustee meeting after which the Newton trial proceeded. Mr. Oakley was called by the defence. Newtons checks were produced. They showed that Hearne had been accustomed to endorse these checks which were payable to Century Association but the theory is, only for identification. I think Hearnes explanation a reasonable one. We got on slowly and it seems to me the only result will be a question between the veracity of Hearne and Newton.

Friday 29" Bitterly cold. I think one of the coldest days of the winter. Did not work today as my head felt badly I think from breathing confined air at the Century last evening. Huntington is very sensitive and we robust ones suffer and sweat in consequence. Miss Mullany who was to come today did not appear. Went to see the Thatcher, Primrose and West ministrels at Nobles last night. Ben Knones, his wife and her sister occupied seats next me. It was somewhat amusing but they are no longer deleniations of Negro character as they used to be.

Saturday March 1. 1884. Still very cold. Bonyer and I went home by the 3.40 train. Tom met us with a sleigh. It was so cold our ears tingled riding home. I looked at the thermometer just before I went to bed and it was only 1° above zero. They say they have felt the cold more the past week than at any other time during the winter. We had our weekly meeting at our home all being present except Gussie who is very miserable. 

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COMPLAINTS ABOUT "A HOLLERER."
From The New-York Evening Post.

Mr. Clarence Cook writes to The Times explaining why he did not appear on the witness-stand during the late Feuardent-Cesnola trial. The reason, as we suspected, is "to be found in the fact that he had no evidence to give as to facts within his own knowledge." This, however, makes another explanation necessary. If he knew nothing of his personal knowledge as to the facts in the case, why did he make such a dreadful uproar about it for two years in letters and pamphlets? Is it really true that he knew nothing about "the fraudulent patchwork of unrelated parts"? It would seem so, and we suspected as much. When the fraudulent patchwork was put out on the floor of the Museum two years ago for public inspection, Mr. Cook's post of honor was at its side, but he was not there. He ought to have been there each day through the whole week from 9 to 5, with occasional intervals, of course, for rest and refreshment, pamphlet in hand, showing how the fraud was committed and covered up. Mr. Cook now says that his activity was all along of his love for Mr. Feuardent, and his hatred of Mr. Di Cesnola. But nobody has done more for Mr. Di Cesnola than Mr. Cook. Nothing has helped that gentleman so effectively as the failure of his opponents to follow up their noise with proof. No writer who respects himself ought to take part in a controversy of this kind with the deliberate intention of confining himself to "hollering." [[/newspaper clipping]]

Sunday 2. Bonyer and Grant went skating. I wrote to Lucy to Louise Weir, and to Alice. After dinner Mary, Sara and I took a sleigh ride out on the Saugerties road crossing over to the Flat-Bush road. The sleighing was excellent and the weather cold. I noticed with regret how they are cutting down the woods everywhere.

Monday 3. Bonyer and I came down by the 7.40 train. It was snowing and we have had snow squalls at intervals through the day. It has been very cold and my room was chilly for the first time this winter. Mrs. Anderson and Mrs. Heath made me a visit. They had been to the Century to see the pictures. I called to see Whittredge. He spoke in high terms of my picture and thought it one of the best I had painted. Went with Marion and Calvert to see "Confession" at the old San Francisco minstrel theatre. It was amusing and well acted but all the situations were foreshadowed and not sufficiently surprising. Then 

Transcription Notes:
the 28" and 29" need to be transcribed before the clipping, and then the rest finished . Rafael Joseffy was a Hungarian pianist