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Saturday July 5" 1884.
Heavy thunder showers this afternoon.
Calvert and I talked with my father about selling the place and what we should ask for it. He seemed to think it an unfavorable time to sell it but said he would not offer any thing which we thought wise. He does not like to be troubled even with talking about it. I wrote to Hoyt & Co real estate agents in N.Y. for their terms and also wrote to Joe Tomkins to see what he says about selling the place and to get his ideas as to prices &c. I feel very anxious and unsettled and see so plainly how much more peaceful we would be if we could turn this into money and have a smaller place, but I feel pressures to bring it about. Calvert is going to consult Judge Merrell and has taken the map of the place to have a tracing made. My father thought he would be willing to sell what is marked on that map as our house & grounds proper - that is what his between Calvert St and the street on the South - Chestnut St and the fence down on the side hill, about 300 ft past for $30,000

Sunday 6.
A bright breezy day after the rain. Calvert, Girard, Jamie and I took a walk over beyond the tunnel. They crossed the bridge while Park and I went on the hill over the tunnel. We came home through the cemetery. The flowers are not doing very well and another year I think I will have the graves sodded. The morning glories on Gussies grave are beginning to grow. I wrote to Mrs. Sawyer today. Calvert went to N.Y. by the 7.10 N.S. train and Downing to Yonkers by the Hudson River road. Girard told me this evening that Manns Trucks lot near his has been sold to Frank Griffiths. This has made me feel more happy because considerable money is due us upon it and its payment will be a great help to us. I hope there is no mistake about it.

Monday 7"
It has been a cool delightful day, Mary Gifford thought it cool, but I have enjoyed it. Tom commenced cutting the grass on the hill. I went over to my studio and looked over my sketching materials and feel the wish to get away and at work from nature. I swept out my outside studio and looked at my camp furniture. A little after 4 I took Mary Gifford up to the N.S. station to return to Pokeepsie. We were sorry to have her leave and she said she had greatly enjoyed her visit and had been very well all the time. I had a letter from Alice. She is full of trouble and wrote to me for sympathy and advice. The trustees of the college have retired Dr Sawyer as "Dean Emeritus" giving him the rent of the house $450 and $150 yearly. The additional $500 when paid him is just on Georges salary. His salary was cut down last year some $900 and they hoped to retain the balance and to have Georges raised. This has quite discouraged Alice as well it might. It seems most hard and cruel treatment to a man who has always been as faithful as Mr. Sawyer has. I wrote her this evening and advised her to write to Fred and Oscar and awaken them to a sense of their duty to help bear their share of this misfortune.

Tuesday 8" It has been a cool, picturesque day with a north wind and magnificent sky effects. I longed to be at work with my colors but do not seem to be able to with so much else to distract me. I cut some of the branches from "Gertrudes tree" to open up a better view of the Hight-bush

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