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Thursday Dec. 2. Now my Franklin will have to be taken out and a stove purchased as it will not warm my room. Went to Jacksons with Calvert to ask about a supplementary gas stove but they are all expensive and it would be experimenting which I cant afford. They only have things for rich people and I have about concluded to buy a stove in Rondout and send my Franklin up home a change I dread for many reasons, but I am being disturbed as I never was before and must submit and whether I will get accustomed to my cramped quarters is a question. I feel I shall not be in N.Y. many years and do not meet these changes very hopefully. Have been to see the gas fitter and the painter and paper hanger who are to come tomorrow and finish my work and the woman is to come to make a carpet out of one of my old ones for my little bed room. Have been hard at work removing my things out of my bed room and have nearly finished and requested to be allowed to consider it vacated from Dec. 1"

Wednesday 3. The gas fitter came and put the pipes in my bed room but the painter did not come and so another day has gone. Sara and I called on Mrs. Donaldson in the evening.

Thursday 4. The painter came but did not get through. I hoped he would finish today but he did not. Sara and I called on the Stoddards and I attended a meeting of the Century trustees

Friday 5. The painter finished about noon to my great relief and I went immediately to work to put my carpet down and try to get in something like order. Sara came over and helped me all afternoon and we accomplished a great deal. Still the task of getting rid of things seems almost hopeless. I shall have to send a lot more up into the country. We were both very tired at night. Mrs. Stoddard and Lony called on Sara. Lony has gone on the stage at Dalys Theatre and nightly as a beginning makes his appearance in one of the scenes dressed in evening suit as a "guest" but says nothing. Poor old Rossell the carman died last week on Tuesday I heard.

Saturday. 6 Sara came down by appointment of Dr. Browne the dentist but he has been absent all week and unless he does something today she will have to return without having accomplished anything. I went up and paid my carpenter for the work in my studio $63. Then I went down to Water St and looked at a stove made in Boston, I think I shall get one. It costs $32. It is raining and Sara and I are going home at 3.30. It is the monthly meeting at the Century but I am in no mood for it and would rather go home.

Monday 8" Sara and I went home on Saturday. It rained and we landed at Kingston and rode home in a pouring rain. My father seems to improve a little and when I told him so as I was helping him with his bath, he said he feared he was, and would rather go the other way. Still he was interested in my advice to try to sell my place and said it would be best and wanted me to do what my judgement dictated, as though it were my own, he said. I found there a letter from Joe in which he tells me he is coming on in a week or two to remove Gussies remains to Hillsboro. It gave Mary, Sara, and me a great shock, but we will make no objection. His reason is that under the circumstances he could not be buried by her side, the force of which is not apparent. It makes little difference to us where her tired body rests but it does seem shocking to disturb her now for she used to say she never could bear the idea of being buried in Hillsboro. Joe is determined to do something to trouble and annoy every

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