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to have her come home, her coming being entirely dependent upon the influences she will be under here. Came back and stopped to see Mary. She is not yet settled and I concluded to come home by 6 o'clock train which I did. Had no chance to get dinner. Hoped there would be a buffet car on the train but could get nothing until I got to Kingston by which time I was half starved. New York was full of vile smells. It was a warm day and to add to the discomfort there was fire in the car I was in and the heat was oppressive.

Tuesday Sept. 29" 1885. Warm and hazey. The river perfectly calm and an Indian Summer haze mapping the landscape. I always wonder now what I am to do for the day, having nothing particular on hand and being in the waiting attitude as I usually am at this time, but I find I am kept busy about a thousand unimportant things. I wrote to Fuller asking him confidentially if he could not have Mrs. Warren look at her picture and send me the money for it as I have been depending upon it and need it very much, but asking him to be judicious in the matter and not give her the impression that I am hurrying her. He knows pretty well how I am situated and I don't care much if he does let her know that she ought to attend to this, as the picture was sent away nearly a month ago. Now I will see what will come of this for it is the lack of this money that hampers me and worries me. I also wrote to Farnham from where I received a letter last night about the birch bark braid. My finger does not improve. The trouble keeps working gradually down and now it has nearly reached the knuckle. This evening Sara has discarded all outward applications and is giving me Sulphur. Harry and Julia came this evening. We had not heard from them but Sara arranged dinner for them and I drove down to the Hudson River train at 6.14 but they did not come. There was a train on the North Shore at 7.25 and I send Tom up to it on a venture and they came by it. Had written us all about it but the letter has not arrived. It is like a summer night and the mosquitos are so thick I was obliged to put a net on my bed today.

Wednesday 30". Sara, Harry, Julia and I were about to start for a drive to Leggs Mills this forenoon when a patient called and Sara was prevented from going. We took little Dwightie in her place and drove to the strand there by the brick yards and the river road and home by the Flat bush road and Kingston. In Kingston I called on Clearwater the District Attorney to inquire about the suit in which yesterday I was summoned as a witness and found that some one had complained of the villainous steam whistles which Klein and Gurnee blow early in the morning at Port Ewen. I am to go up tomorrow at 2 and will be glad of an opportunity to be questioned regarding the nuisance. After dinner I packed a box of grapes and pears to send to Tom McEntee tomorrow. Mr. Brey called to ask me to be a witness in a case in which he has been sued for refusing to pay for his subscription to a collection of photogravures on the ground that they were inferior to the specimens shown him. I am getting into the laws meshes. It has been hot and dry and I have no inclination to go off the hill. Sara had her usual letter from Lucy.

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