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Julia Dillon perhaps for the last time as our teacher hopes to get something better to do. Went around to the club a little while. Was introduced to a young Englishman, a Mr. Bell who told me he had a letter of introduction for me from Bram Stoker and that he had called at my studio two months ago to deliver it but I was still in the Country. 

Sunday Jan 3" 1886. Went home by the 9.30 train. It was a warm foggy day. Sara had invited Girard & Mary and John & Nannie to dinner which we sat down to about 3 o clock, and had a happy time. John & Nannie were obliged to go home early as some one sent word they would call in the evening. My father seems as well as usual and Sara thinks he is stronger, but he is disinclined to any effort.

Monday 4. Rainy. I did a variety of jobs about the house and while Sara went to a "Home" meeting I sat in my fathers room and wrote to Janette. Found at home a nice letter from Susan Chamberlain, and one from Alice. Just before I left this evening Girard brought from the post office a long and interesting letter from Mr. Sawyer to my father which I read to him. He spoke of the changes they had seen in their life time. The invention of the Steam boat and the Rail Road, then the telegraph, the telephone and the sewing machine and he also dwelt upon the change in religious feeling and with satisfaction that the world was growing liberal and all becoming Universalists. I came away with the 7.25 train. It was dark and raining and before we got to the Highlands it fairly poured. The train had to move with caution and we stopped several times. Once a torpedo exploded under the wheels and some of the passengers were pretty well alarmed. I did not reach my room until 11. oclock and found it filled with coal gas the wind driving the gas down chimney and out into the room. I decided to go to bed but I opened the windows and closed the stove as well as I could and both the chimneys. Of course I did not have a good night and my head feels thick today.

Tuesday 5". Worked on my picture all day but it does not please me as I wish it did. In the evening called on Miss Nesmith. There was a gentleman there from Chicago. The weather grew cooler and was agreeable towards evening. Sent my picture "November" 20 x 24 to the Brooklyn Exhibition today. Had to get a frame from Wilmont as my pictures have not come from Detroit nor do I hear from there. I hope one of them is sold.

Wednesday 6" Colder today. Towards evening began to snow. Have painted all day on my picture but it needs force and I am rather bothered with it. Fuller called. Parton came in to see my Water Color and seemed to like it. Calvert is in trouble for the lack of money as I am for that matter and it makes me miserable to see him so worried and abstracted. I wish I could help him, or myself for that matter. I met Lily French in Union Square this morning. She told me she had been in town since October and that she was engaged in newspaper work on the Star. She said she was going to move into her flat that day, that Mrs. Weir was with her, who would be glad to see me and she gave me her address. I called up there this evening but could get no response and left my card. The wind blew from the N.W., and it was very cold. I walked up and back to my room where I read two of Sir Joshuas' lectures and then went to bed.

Thursday 7. Painted on various pictures, my large one not being dry enough, but mostly on Mrs. Warrens picture. Gill called and 

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Bram Stoker!!! Wow!!! Interesting. . Sir Joshua Reynolds, artist ---------- Reopened for Editing 2023-05-07 00:10:45