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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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