Viewing page 315 of 607

This transcription has been completed. Contact us with corrections.

300 

woman, who talked well and with whom I had an agreeable interview. I also met Mrs. Haven Putnam, Mrs Botta, Mrs. Stoddard, Mrs Grote, Mrs. Hopper, Clara Field, Amy Putnam, Dr. Coan, Mr. Hurd, Stoddard, and Mrs. Runkle. I enjoyed the occasion very much. I also saw O'Donovan the sculptor who introduced me to his wife, a very pretty and agreeable woman. This evening I called on Lily Brown and Aunt Christina at Fred Nortons. Aunt C. and Lily have recently come from Montreal.

Saturday, Apl. 17" 1886. Dined with Lily French and Louise Weir at Lily's apartment after which we went to the Bijou Theatre and saw Dixie in his 603" and last performance of "Adonis"  Piles of flowers and floral structures kept pouring on the stage and there was great enthusiasm and excitement from a not over refined audience. I went to the academy in the morning. Galt told me there had been inquiries about my pictures and he thought I made a mistake in not publishing my prices in the catalogue. I told him the prices in the catalogue had become a furor because the younger artists put in such enormous figures which they did not expect to realize that buyers had been educated to offer just what they pleased knowing many artists would accept their offers.

Sunday 18" Went home by morning train. A most charming day the still river lying in a dreamy  Indian summer haze afforded lively pictures. My father came down and sat on the back porch where he was too warm so that we retired to the shaded front porch. Wrote Lucy sending her a copy of Lauras offensive letter to Sara and advised her to send it to Laura and to tell her frankly how she regarded it, that it would be most unwise for her to come to Rondout until she made a full and sincere apology for it. Even then I told her I did not think Sara would want to see her and I certainly would not forgive her until she did that much. Wrote to Lily French about the flats in the annex to the 8" St. apartments and to Tom McEntee, from whom I had a letter telling me he thought Mr. Johnsons bill a reasonable one.

Monday 19" I think this is the 25" anniversary of the firing on the Massachusetts troops in Baltimore. Spent the forenoon taking off the double windows and going down town to have my hair cut and in getting my birch canoe ready to send to Bowyer, to whom I have given it, to appear in the canoe exhibition. After dinner I sheared Park and blistered my fingers in the operation. Mrs. Kenyon, Will's Widow, and Mrs. Chipp called. I did not see them as I was busy grafting the pear tree (the natural one) in which I set the Seckel grafts. It rained hard in the afternoon. In the evening Sara and I went down to call on the Cantines but Mrs. C. had gone to Albany. We went on to John & Nannies and spent the evening. We had lettuce and radishes from our hot bed today The peas are up and the spring is as forward in Rondout as in N.Y.

Tuesday 20. After breakfast had the horses get up and Sara and I went for Mrs. Cantine for a ride. Went to Kingston and called for Mrs. Kenyon to go with us and to spend the day at our house but she had gone for Arbutus. We drove out on the Flatbush road and got a quantity of Sanguinaria, crossed over to the Saugerties road, where it began to rain and rained quite hard when we reached Kingston where we again called for Mrs. Kenyon who had not returned. After dinner she drove down and spent the afternoon and staid to tea. She is pretty, interesting

Transcription Notes:
Park is the dog first word appears to be men