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Sunday Feb 13" 1887. Went over to my studio after breakfast and took down the curtains, unfolded the carpet of my N.Y. bedroom and took what I needed for my new bedroom and taking them over home packed them in a big bundle to be sent to me by Express. Sara put in a lot of things for Katy Stowes people. In the afternoon I waited with my father and read to him. It was a bright winter day but a cold one. There is still good sleighing as the roads are solid ice. Sara and I sat by the sitting room fire after father had gone to bed, discussing all the various topics we had to go over after my fortnights absence.

Monday 14. A cold night. I found the mercury on our back porch at 1° below zero this morning at 7. I came away with the 7.40 train and came near missing it. Found the carpenter at work and his painters getting ready to color my walls. This going to Dr. Taylors is a nuisance now when I want to attend to the work in my rooms. I saw Nannie there who thinks she is improving.

Tuesday 15. The weather is warm again and it rained this morning but cleared in the afternoon. I carried a lot of my canvases up to my new studio this afternoon. I hope the carpenter will finish tomorrow so that I can have the room cleaned and the floor stained. Went to Dr. Taylors as usual, and to the Century in the evening where I met Armstrong and talked with him. I am very anxious to get settled. I dont quite know where the money is coming from to pay for all I am having done but it will come as it always has. I am only doing what I am obliged to.

Wednesday 16" Spent a part of the day wiping off my framed sketches and carrying them up to my new studio and hanging them on the walls. The carpenter carried up a number of things besides. This evening the carpenter work is nearly done and the floor scrubbed ready for the painter who comes tomorrow morning to color it. I begin to feel now that I shall get in with all my furniture on Friday or Saturday at the farthest. Went to Dr. Taylors as usual. Smith, the Art man of the Minneapolis exposition called this afternoon. this is only a preliminary call but he wants me to contribute and says the exposition is a success. He said they sold $60,000 worth of pictures for cash, stock in the exposition, and real estate a curious and decidedly western style of business. Still he seems a fair, shrewd man with practical Western ways. Went to the club this evening and wrote to Sara. I wish I had some money to send her. I shall have to have money very soon but fortunately do not worry about it.

Thursday 17" I wrote to Sam Coykendall to ask him to discount my note for $2000 with my fathers endorsement to be renewed as I desire. I told him it was my intention to grade the street I had begun and to bring the property into market. Said I thought I was personally worth $25000 and that my fathers property was worth at least $50,000 and told him what incumbrance was upon it, and that that was no burden as I paid the interest in my work. Now I wonder what he will do. It is a business matter entirely. He knows we are responsible. If I can get this accommodation it will help me until I can sell some lots. I have to do something of this sort, as others have to do and would rather borrow at the bank than anywhere else. I shall be anxious to see the result of this. This evening the floor of my studio is stained and nearly all the other work is done. Tomorrow they put the shellac on it and I hope to get all my things moved in before night. Little 

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In 1890, Jervis sold the property to Samuel Coykendall, who removed the house to make room for his mansion ---------- Reopened for Editing 2023-05-14 23:00:59 .