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to my studio and we went up to 25" St and called at Mrs. Thurber who was out as she is most of the time. Then we went over to Mrs Wheelers, this being her and Dora's reception day. She was very cordial We met Mrs. Cortlandt Palmer there and Mrs. Wheeler took us down to her apartment and showed us the beautiful stuffs and embroideries. We were there more than an hour and had a cordial reception.

Friday 5. Feb. 1886. To the dentist at 9 where Sara joined me and went with me to 59" St to see the Panorama of the fight between the Monitor and the Merrimac. Came back to my studio at 12 and Sara went to Annie Nortons to lunch. She told me at dinner this evening that it was most fortunate that we met Mrs. Curtis in the street car for she told Annie Sara was coming there to lunch. When she rang the bell the servant told her to go to directly to Annies room, where she learned that Mrs. J. T. was in the parlor calling on Mrs. Curtis and that an Eastport acquaintance had invited her and Fred to meet Joe and his wife at dinner, but they declined on account of another engagement. Julia Dillon and Mrs John Tuckerman and her daughter called. Mrs. T. is going to Rondout on Monday or Tuesday. Reichardt called. He has not sold the two pictures he bought of me two years ago. He was very friendly and I did not talk business with him. Sara, Julia and I went to see Booth in Hamlet at the 5' Av. Theatre this evening. Our seats were in the front next the orchestra where we could see only the upper half of the actors. Booth played with his usual face but begins to look older. His hair is thin and gray. There was an immense house and an evident love for the man 

Saturday 6" Sara and I went home by the 11 o clock train. Girards wife and Mrs. Crosby were on the train. The weather was cold and ice boats and trotting matches enlivened the frozen river. Tom met us with the sleigh. Later I drove down town and met Mary Gifford who came over the river in the stage sleigh and we spent the day most agreeably at home in front of the open fire

Sunday 7. Warmer. At home all day. My father as well as usual. He saw Mary Gifford and remembered her.

Monday 8". A soft beautiful, warm day. We went for a sleigh ride Sara, Mary, Mary Gifford, Doughtie and I out on the Flat bush road, across to the Saugerties road and to Kingston to do some errands. The sleighing was about done about the town.

Monday 8" Another warm day 55° at sunset. I went up to the 2'25 train and met Mrs. Tuckerman by appointment. She has not been in Rondout for about 30 years. She and Mary talked of their school days. Mrs. Kenyon, Will Kenyons young widow called to see Sara and I saw her fairly for the first time. She was very attractive to me. We had dinner at 5 and I came away with the 6 20 train. I found at my studio both pictures sent to Auchincloss and suppose something is wrong as usual. Notes from Mrs. Custer, Miss Nesmith, and others and a Ms. from Mrs. Stone. Went to bed tired about midnight. Tickets for a box from Mrs. Thurber for tonight. Too late.

Tuesday 9" Wrote to Mrs. Thurber thanking her, to Mrs. Custer and to Mrs. Stone. Found a note from Auchincloss who says that on getting my pictures in the light (or dark I presume) they have neither of them were satisfactory, but telling me he wants a picture and asks about my academy picture and to put the money to his credit. 

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