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[[crossed-out]] Wednesday [[/crossed-out]] Thursday November 11" 1886. I went over to my studio and painted two small sketches this forenoon and began a third one which I finished after dinner. While I was at work a telegram arrived from Bowyer saying he had received my letter and would come up tonight. When I came over to dinner I looked in the parlor and saw a gentleman sitting there. I approached him and said I am Mr. McEntee. He smiled and said "So am I" and said he was obliged to tell me he was Charles McEntee before I knew him. He looked younger and more elegant than I expected. I was very glad to see him and he gave us an account of a rich widow he has been to see at Amsterdam but who does not quite fill the bill. Bowyer came this evening with the 7.10 train and he and I have talked over my project of the small sketches. He is to act as the advertiser and is to take the advertisement I wrote and put it in shape. I am to go to N.Y. and settle on a style of frame and he is to have a little wood cut made of one of the with the picture in it to go with the advertisement in the Century. We are too late for the Dec. no. The rates for advertisng are ascending, from $250 to $600 pr page for one insertion.- Bowyer has to return tomorrow by the 6 o'clock train. John McEntee came up and spent the evening but Bowyer and I had to retire to my room to talk over our business. He thinks it a most promising scheme and so do I but still I am prepared for disappointment.

Friday 12" The weather was mild and grey this morning. Tom and I carried up the storm windows, the girls washed them and by dinner time I had them all up and the blinds fastened back, This afternoon I went for my little sketches. It rained towards evening and now 11 oclock is snowing and the wind is rising. I wrote to Lucy at Fort Bridger and today I sent John his cap by mail registered and also three letters which came since he went away. Charlie has interested us greatly with a frank account of his relations with the rich widow He does not seem attracted in spite of her wealth.  
[[left margin]] Storm windows put on [[/left margin]]

Saturday 13" It has snowed at intervals all day but has not been cold. Snow fell to the depth of a foot in Buffalo, Rochester and Utica. I have been at work in my studio and painted three sketches although one of them is not very satisfactory. Sara had a letter from Lucy on the train between Omaha and Ogden. It is blowing hard from the N.W as I go to bed.

Sunday 14" The wind has blown a gale from the N.W. all day but it has not been very cold. We still sit in the parlor where Charlie has written to the Amsterdam widow telling her that he cannot decide yet and we have discussed the situation with great sincerity and frankness on his part. He is an honorable man with correct instincts and intentions. He told us this evening of his sons unhappy married life. He, Sara and I went down to Johns after dinner and called on Julia Dillon who returned from Europe on Friday. Charlie and I have discussed my proposition of grading Chester St which I begin tomorrow and this evening we walked over there and looked at it. He thinks it a nice undertaking. I wrote to Miss. Nesmith.

Monday 15" Have had a busy day. Directly after breakfast I went over to Chester St. with Henry and set him to work, then down town and ordered a wheelbarrow and two shovels. Afterwards to Kingston to advise with Judge Kenyon about getting a power of attorney from my father to transact his business. He finally advised me to get a lawyer down here to execute it and spoke of Chipp whom I went to see. He drew up the paper and his partner Preston who is a notary came up with me in the wagon and executed it with my father. After dinner I went over to where Tom and Henry were at work and Henry suggested a cart instead of a two horse wagon to haul the dirt. I harnessed the horse and drove down to the Cement Co, office where I saw Ned Tomkins who kindly agreed to lend me a cart and   harness and that is all fixed. Mr. Kenyon thinks I am not sufficiently fortified against objections that may be made against grading Chester St over the lands of others and advises me to get the Common Council to order it done so as to secure me from trouble. He is a very cautious man and I shall