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what must be a fine view of the Shawangunk and the creek above Eddyville. It was very warm. Returning we went up the stone road in Jacobs Valley, stopped at the brewery and got some refreshing lager beer and home by Wiltwyck Cemetery and across the fields. Took a bath and changed our clothes for tea and Calvert, Sara, my father and I sat in the parlor and read. Calvert is going home tomorrow and we are to be alone again. We shall miss him very much. There is comparatively little autumn color so late in the season and it is as warm as summer tonight. I long for the cool autumnal days.

Saturday Oct 5" 1884. It rained in the night and today has been a typical October day with a north wind and clear air. Calvert, Girard and I went down to Mrs. Schultz's to see Marions banner screen for the Cornell Hose Co. She had gone to church and we went and saw it. I have been reading in Taylors life and letters about his early career and his connection with Mary Agnew. I seemed to forget that he is gone and had a vague sense of  wishing to see him and talk it all over with him. It has taken me into the Past and my thoughts have been with dear Gertrude, my mother and those who are gone and a sad and unreal sense of the present life has been mingled with what is no more. Calvert went home by the evening train my father taking him down to the ferry. He was loath to go. This three weeks of rest he has thoroughly enjoyed and I do not remember to have seen him so reposeful and contented and cheerful for a long time. We were sorry to have him go and now my father Sara and I are alone again. The Universalist State Convention meets at Pokeepsie this week and my father would like to go for a day. I have written to Major Wilkinson to send me the order of exercises if he can and I will go down one day with my father. He does not seem to have many joys now and I would like to give him any satisfactions in my power. Sara and I sat late in the parlor with a fire in the Franklin and talked of my mother and her laudable ambitions for her home and family. At such times it seems to me that I will try to do as she did and meet the demands of each day with something of her brave spirit. I feel that I have made some new resolutions the past week in some directions and I pray I may be kept from despondency and discouragement. It does me good to come in contact with the history of the life of a man like Taylor. His force of will, his industry and his hopeful nature give me renewed strength and I here renew the friendship I enjoyed so many years with a feeling of gratitude that we were so much to each other.

Monday 6". Put some of the pine needles on a part of the strawberry bed as an experiment. I wonder who will eat the fruit of this bed to which I have given so much care. Looked up barrels and boxes for the apples which we are going to gather and worked hard and got very hot. Just as we finished dinner Maj. Wilkinson came in having been out to Chichesters. He took some of our delicious watermelons from our garden and we smoked a cigar on the front porch until 3 oclock when he left for home. Tom has begun gathering the apples and the two little boys who helped with the cherries also helped a part of the afternoon. Mr. Mason our grocer has engaged 16 barrels at 1.50 each he furnishing barrels and a man is coming tomorrow to negotiate for all we have. I am given up now to these things and can scarcely think of my art. It is wrong but I cannot help myself. I have felt troubled and distressed that it is so. Tired as I was this evening I read Taylors life and letters and have nearly finished the first volume - to the building and occupancy of Cedarcroft. He was young then but he lived to see that it was a mistake and that it hampered his whole after life. What a resource is an interesting book

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