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Monday June 9" 1884. Busy in the garden and doing all sorts of things from mulching the strawberry bed to fixing the top of the kitchen table. Am reading Swedenborg but it is rather dull. A great deal of repetition and the whole theory resting upon the assertion of one mortal man, still there is much to stimulate thought. Cousin Rachel and I sat on the front porch this evening and talked of poor Maurice. It will soon be a year since he died. This morning I did what I have long been contemplating but have never been quite able to make up my mind to do it. In the carriage house was a box of letters evidently put away when we left our dear little home. Most of them were letters to Gertrude from her friends and a great number from her father and mother from her early childhood up. Fearing that some day they would be forgotten and scattered I looked them all over and destroyed all but a few from her father and mother and four or five of her letters to me written in 1855 and 56. I also came across a letter her father wrote her grandmother the day she was born June 29" 1834. This with other of their letters to her when she and Oscar were children staying in New Jersey and also when she was at school in West Cambridge I sent to her mother today by mail. It was tearful work destroying these records of the days that are no more but it seemed to me best to do it. I hope I may not regret it. Every time I looked into that box it gave me a feeling of the greatest sadness. Now I shall see it no more and at least will be spared that pang. I am going to N.Y. tomorrow to Julia Vauxs wedding and to put away my things for the summer. I hope to be gone only a couple of days. 

Tuesday 10. Went to N.Y. by morning train arriving there at 11. Took a trunk full of roses which I sent over to Mary. Went to work and did many things in putting away articles for the summer. Went over to Marys a little before 6 and saw Julias presents. Mary and Sara were hard at work getting ready for the wedding tomorrow. Eastman had telegraphed me to come up there and dine and as they were in considerable confusion at Marys I did so. Phil was there with an attack of gout. I staid until 11 o clock and had a pleasant visit. The weather is cool and cloudy threatening rain which does not come. 

Wednesday 11. Still cool and cloudy - perfectly comfortable in this city. Sent the forenoon attending to affairs and about noon dressed myself and went over to attend Julias wedding at 1 o clock. The rooms looked very beautifully with a profusion of flowers The ceremony was performed by Mr. Nichols of New Haven a friend of Harrys an Episcopal clergyman. There were present only the immediate families Calvert, Mary, Bowyer, Downing, Marion, Mr + Mrs. Donaldson Mr + Mrs., Miechols, Annie Norton and Girards wife who came down on the Powell. It struck me as the most sensible wedding I ever attended from its simplicity. After the marriage a nice lunch with wine was served from the dining room by Downing and Bowyer when Julia and Harry departed. It was only known to the initiated that they went to the Old Mountain House.I mentioned to lia and spent the evening with them  

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