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from them are my ideas of art. It was raining quite hard when I came to my room and Calvert went to the desk to write a letter. I found a telegram from Whittredge saying he would go to Milford with Pinchot and me, and after a while he came. We went together up to the 23" St. ferry in the rain where we met Pinchot. We took the 2.30 train and reached Port Jervis about 5 where a covered carriage awaited us and took us to Pinchots home in Milford. He has kept some people in it all winter to look to it and they got a simple dinner for us. We sat in the sitting room after dinner talking and smoking until bed time.

Sunday Apl. 24" 1887. A fine bright morning. We did not breakfast until 9 which is very late for me; but I had a nice bath and a short stroll before breakfast. Later we went up the glen and strolled about in the sunshine for several hours, dined at 4 and went all over the house which struck both of us as a most hospitable and cheerful one. I asked him what it has cost him and he told me less than $16,000. It looks as though it might have cost $50,000 or even more, but he has given it his personal attention and having money has bought materials advantageously. He told me that the whole mason work including the plastering was I think about $6,000. It certainly is a charming house and I enjoyed it and at the same time there was a feeling of unhappiness as I contrasted the ample means here to the lack in our own simple household. It was pleasant to be entertained here but I kept thinking all the time that I would have to go home and face trying and worrying responsibilities which a little money could so lighten. There was no envy in my heart, but a feeling of discouragement that I could not more easily carry on our simple mode of life.

Monday 25." Fine weather. Whittredge and I left at 11 for the 12 30 train from Port Jervis, Pinchot remaining until evening. I left at Grey court and came across to Newburgh where I had to wait from 2 30 until 5, when I came home by Hudson River road reaching the house at 6.30, fatigued with waiting at the station and glad to be there. It grew colder toward evening and began to rain. Mary was there and also Janette and Emily. Janette had been ill with some alarming symptoms and they had all been very anxious about her.

Tuesday 26" Up early to get Janette and Emily up to the 7 o'clock train on their way home. Sara and I drove them up. It rained very gently but cleared in the afternoon. They will reach home at 5.30.- Afterwards I went to see Mrs. Folant. She has very little idea of what she wants but I tried to inform her as well as I could and she finally settled upon a design which I am to purchase in N.Y. Set Tom to work applying the fertilizer. I am most unhappy and every thing looks very discouraging to me, but I am not well and attribute some of my trouble to that; but I am back in the discouraged state I have been in so many times, and which grows harder to bear each time. Sara and I were invited to Kitty Sharpes wedding tomorrow, but Sara was only invited to the church while I was invited to the reception at the house, which seemed so strange to me that I think there has been a mistake. I sent my congratulations, regretting I could not be present.

Wednesday 27. Mary and I came away by the 7.40 train. I felt melancholy with a head ache and great depression of spirit. Poor Sara with her monotonous and trying round of duties keeps more cheerful than I do. It seems cruel to leave her alone there and I think I shall go there before long. There really seems no need of my staying here. Not a soul apparently has been here since I went away. I found a letter from Alice from whom I have not heard in a long time. I felt very badly and my head ached so that I could not work so I went down town and settled 

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First FULL PASS complete 5/15/23. Thomas Worthington Whittredge[1] (May 22, 1820 – February 25, 1910) was an American artist of the Hudson River School. Grey Towers is the ancestral home of Gifford Pinchot, the first chief of the Forest Service, and a writer's paradise during a two-week stay. Per SI, when a word is split between films (the first or last of a page), the full word goes on both pages. In this instance, the last on the page is SET, with TLED on the next, so I put SETTLED on this page, and will put it on the next as well. Kf. ---------- Reopened for Editing 2023-05-15 22:57:17 ---------- Reopened for Editing 2023-05-16 07:53:53 ---------- Reopened for Editing 2023-05-16 15:41:50 ---------- Reopened for Editing 2023-05-16 22:43:43 . ---------- Reopened for Editing 2023-05-16 22:48:26