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322 ULSTER ACADEMY, RONDOUT, N. Y. COMMENCEMENT, Liscomb Opera house, EIGHT O'CLOCK Tuesday Evening, June 29th, 1886. to contentment and happiness. I feel that I should take a dose of my own comes and I feel lonely and sad that the days and the years slip yet hearing of others about me strug- bits one surely in my condition live for. I took my father out for fast. It was a glorious morning and I feel that I would like to go he found it too cool and we came and had my hair cut and a= clerks office when I looked up concrete house under the hill After dinner I went down on Holmes St. and marked it some cherries and some day has gone. My paintings se of mind I know all that de= is not too far off. I think all Gertrude. Never a day goes by sterday a sudden pang went gation that she is utterly gone her and with a sudden strong as for a brief moment it seemed it was. It almost seems as somewhere into infinity and dens of despair. I went down to Sara had been to tea. I did not John who seemed worried and drive from High Falls and called. Saturday and Sara went down to and Charlie and Doughtie returned have been a week or more. Girard began to cut the hay today quantity of currants today for jelly. ceived a letter from Mrs. Steele to- March. It informed me of the death on the 17 of March at San Luis Obispo California. It had been expected as she has had some mental disease for three years. She was a beautiful women. The last time I saw her was many years ago in Fifth Avenue. We passed each other and bowed our recognition. I shall always regret that I did not stop and speak with her. These sisters seem to have been very devoted to each other. After the death of her first husband Peter R. Livingston and after years of widowhood she married Mr. Angel who had loved her from her girlhood and Mrs. Steele says her marriage was a happy one in all respects. I remember some one saying of her during her widowhood that she was sure she would never marry again unless her heart was really engaged. It takes me back to my young days to read this letter from a lady I sincerely admired and who knew me in my early life. - Sara and I attended the Commencements exercises of Ulster Academy at Liscomb Opera House this evening. The place was crowded and a most gratifying interest shown in the Institution. A class of eight graduated. Wednesday 30" June has gone and we have had no hot weather. The wind has been from the North today and the same agreeable temperature
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