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Thursday June 26" 1884.  In the cherry business nearly all day. The two little boys came and picked for me. They picked about 65 quarts. I invited Girard and May and John and Nannie to tea which went off successfully and we had a pleasant social time. The rain cleared off in the night and today there has been a brisk wind from the North with a delightful temperature. I had a letter from Sara from Nestorville. She was going to Janet Hubbards today and is to meet my father in Utica on Monday to come home, arriving here at 8 o'clock in the evening. I burned my finger today and my hands are in a painful condition, and I am tired tonight. The house is lonely again and a half sad feeling settled down upon it. 

Friday 27"  Today has finished the cherries to my great satisfaction. It has been cool and delightful. I had a letter from Lucy and one from Pinchot asking me to prevent any action against Eno the defaulting president of the bank, in the Century, as his verification was suffered to have been forwarded. Mrs. Davis came up this forenoon. Lottie and Natalie Anderson called. Natalie is very pretty. I gave her one of my photographs and gave Lottie one of dear Gertrudes. Calvert and Marion came up on the [[?]]. I went down to meet them. They did not get up here until half past nine. Marion has her cat which will probably be a great nuisance. I have no patience with pampered pets of cats and dogs. 
Saturday 28".  Awoke with a bad feeling in my head which has continued all day. I am [[?]]ed and tormented with our affairs. Calvert and I have talked the situation over and he thinks as I do that it is decidedly best to sell if we can. I am only afraid there will be no one to buy, but this feeling of anxiety I grow more and more wary of and I am determined to do all I can to effect a change for I feel that his state of slavery will destroy me. Mrs. Waters and Miss Anna Ludlum called on May also Miss Vaux and Mrs. Hermance. June [[Gretchins?]] and Ellen Russell called. Aunt Charlotte is down at Aunt Anns and when Sara returns we must have them up here. My old vines seem all coming back, hard as I try to defy them. I showed Calvert and May a statement of my account and the money I had furnished here in all come  $9,5000. I wanted them to know and understand it.
Sunday 29.  Calvert and I picked some of the cherries which had been left in the topmost branches. I wrote a long letter to Lucy. A little before 4 o'clock May, Marion, Calvert and the two little boys Charles and Girard went for a ride around by the river road and home of Charlie Livingstons and the alms home. It was pretty hot at first but cool and comfortable coming home. Have thought a good deal over my anxieties. They prevent me from reading or directing myself in other ways.
Monday 30.  Mary & Calvert went to N.Y. by the W.S. train this morning. I attended to the tomatoes and made a frame to train them on and picked some cherries and went down town. This afternoon I made a startling discovery that I had got vermin in me but where, I have not the [[?]] idea - While I was driving a carriage drove up with a lady & gentleman which proved to be Major McKinnon & Julia. They came up to put Edith on the train to go to the mountains with Louise and visited with me until half past five when they took the  

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