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[[left margin]] Calf of the rack and white corn [[/left margin]]

of decline. Life seems very serious and the going down into old age not inviting. Worked on my picture which now I am anxious to have some of the Artists see. My cold is increasing and I feel badly. Went to the club after reading in “Tartarin” the Lion hunter, which is most amusing.

Thursday 17. St. Patrick’s day, still cold and windy. I received a note from Selstedt asking me if I would take $325. for my Asshokan Brook for the Buffalo Art Association. I wrote him I would accept the offer as it was to go into the collection of the Art Academy although I thought it worth all I asked for it. I finished reading the adventures of Tartarin the Lion Hunter which is very amusing.  Went around to the club. Brad
ford and Champney came in from Bliss Bakers Sale, which they announced 
as a great success. His picture of Morning after the Snow was bought by Altman for $5,000. The sale brought about $23,000 I understood.  I was 
in Casiliars Studio this afternoon. He mixed some aconite for my cold which I took every 15 minutes for two hours and feel greatly relieved before I went to bed.

Friday 18". Walked down the Bowery and bought some tools for Jimmy. The weather still windy and cold. Worked on my picture Storm Clouds drifting off changing the rocks in the foreground greatly to it's advantage I think.
Eastman called at six o'clock, the first time he was here in my new studio. He is hard at work on the hanging committee of the Academy to light up the galleries to see the pictures by gas light.  I came to my room a little after 10.

Saturday 19" A meeting of the Century Club was called for this evening to consider an important proposition.  There was a large attendance
It was no other than to remove the restriction to $150,000 under
which the Committee were to secure a site for the club. It was overwhelmingly defeated by a good ringing speech by Prentiss who moved an amendment to the resolution, that the committee be discharged from further consideration of the subject. Thus has the century again should its determination not to leave behind is old traditions, an adherence to which has given it its distinction, without knowing very
nearly what kind of a future it is to enter upon.

[[left margin]] Hot bed [[/left margin]]

Sunday 20" Went home by the 9.55 train - a mild pleasant day, its never open to Pokeepsie but firmly closed above. Tom met me with the wagon the sleighing having ended on Wednesday and he informed of the birth of a calf of the little black & white cow on Thursday. Found Sara alone, Mrs. Swan who came on Tuesday having gone to N.Y. yesterday. My father as well as usual. He has his 87th birth day dinner Today and invited Gerard and all his family to eat a 16 pound turkey. My father did not come down. It was sunny and pleasant and the bluebirds and wrens singing all about. Tome has his hot bed going.

Monday 21" This is really my fathers birth day, but he had the dinner yesterday because we could have all Gerards children better on Sunday as they had no school to present their coming, a beautiful, warm day. Tom and I shoveled the pile of snow from the porch of the house and afterwards I went downtown and saw Griffiths about fertilizer for the orchard and the land about the house. I also went to see Tom Tremper and Genl. Sharpe about the soldiers monument as I am in a committee to select a design, but neither of them were in. I however left word for them to notify me a letter in advance of meeting so that I might be present. Walked over to Chester St. and the tobaggan slide, the ice of which is rapidly melting away. There is still deep snow in places and Henry came to see us today to say that he had been over there and that he could go to work on the grading tomorrow, so he is to get a man to help him

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