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to Brooklyn. I found a World of Oct 9" 1884 at our camp which has lain there ever since. I cut a piece from it to send to Downing. It was pretty legible

Monday Sept. 15" 1884. A fine day with just a tinge of autumnal coolness in the air. We went up near our camp and I made a study along the brook for the trees. Moved to a room up stairs which I think I will like better. Wrote home.

Tuesday 16. Warm pleasant day. Sketched the tree tops in my subject of yesterday. Girard sent me the Sunday Tribune with a notice of the death of Robert Hoe.

Wednesday 17. Painted the same subject looking down the stream. A pleasant warm day, the sun under clouds a part of the time. We took a walk up on the hill where Mr. Wilburs father lived. A very pleasant place with a fine outlook.

Thursday 18. Painted a group of trees along the road. The wind North and cool in the woods. A black cloud came from the North threatening rain but it ended in wind. Wrote a note to Mrs. Robt. Hoe.
 
Friday 19. Painted along the brook. An autumnal coolness in the air. Found a letter from Sara, one from Perry and Anna Godwins wedding cards. We went up on the hill opposite the house before supper. The fire we hoped to enjoy evenings brings the whole family and all the men into the parlor. There were a dozen in there tonight, and a part of the time the door was shut.

Saturday 20. Along the road painting trees but not successfully as a heavy shower came up. I concluded we were in for the Equinoctial but the sun came out again.

Sunday 21. Started to see Mrs. Thurber and Julia Wilkinson through the notch. We left an hour later than we intended at 10 and did not reach there until two. Found Mary Gifford and her father there with Julia in Mrs. Wheelers cottage. Mr. Gifford is 89 years old and does not seem to me to change much. Mrs. Thurber has a very quaint house. They asked us to stay over night which I would have done only I was afraid it would inconvenience them. We left there promptly at 3 and walked briskly so as not to be caught in the woods in the dark, and it was all we could do to reach Wilburs before dark. We did not start a moment too soon. It was a charming day, clear and cool with a North wind. Found at Wilburs Brando and his wife the [[?]] of the City of Kingston.

Monday 22. Pretty stiff from my expedition yesterday but went up the brook and made a sketch. Have made all my sketches thus far below our camp of last year. Last year all my studies were above. Calvert took a walk to the store and post office and said it had been the warmest day since we came. A letter from Sara.

Tuesday 23. Made another study near the same place. Rained a little in the night and was foggy this morning. The sun came out at breakfast time but it clouded up when we went out and remained grey all day. A fox crossed the brook just near where we sat and a little later a hound. Some time after came a terrier evidently on the same track. There is very little autumn color as yet but the past day or two has given a decided sense of change to the woods. They seem just ready to burst with color and I think in a week there will be a great deal of bright foliage. I fell and [[sentence continues on next page]]

[[strikethrough]] Wednesday 24. Made a study along the brook. A cloudy day so that the scene did not change and I worked all day [[/strikethrough]]

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