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she cannot finish with the dentist and will not come home until Monday. I will miss poor old Park and have had moods of melancholy and depression which I strive against. Went over to my studio and took off all the sketches I had mounted as they did not stick to the canvas as I might have known.

Sunday [[strikethrough]] Saturday [[/strikethrough]] June 12" 1887. John McEntee came up on the hill to get the two kittens to take out to Julia at High Falls and asked me to go along which I did. It was a beautiful day. The kittens got out of the basket just after we started out but we got them up there without further trouble. We talked over affairs all the way and he told me how rich men get rid of their personal taxes here which made me feel how powerless one is to contend with such sharp, selfish people. When we reached Julias and took the kittens out their dog chased and frightened them for a while but they were in the kitchen when we left and apparently happy. We had dinner and tea there and came away a little before 7 having had a pleasant visit. The foreman of Freds [[?]] had been arrested for carelessness by the coroner after the death of three men by accident last week. This will trouble Fred who is ill and gone to Europe. I have felt very weak and shaky all day and do not seem to improve in that respect. I have a giddy feeling which I do not like.

Monday 13 Still feel giddy but perhaps a little better in my leg. Picked the peas and wrote an answer to an advertisement for a county place I saw in the Sunday Tribune from C. L. Blake Sag Harbor L.I. Received letters from Whittredge and from Weir. Mrs. Cornell called. I have seemed a little better possibly today but am tormented thinking over our affairs. I must try to stop this. Henry came and brought me the hedge shears. They are to leave my house tomorrow. I am sure they are sorry to leave. I told Henry he had done all I asked him to do and if it were not that I wanted Tom on the hill I would like to have him stay in my house. He thanked me for letting him stay seven years without rent and said when Tom married he expected he would have to leave. Sara came this evening. 

Tuesday 14" Have been at work all forenoon making out the form to send to Phillips & Wells putting our property in their hands for sale. I dont expect to hear from it but we may and I feel we must do what we can. I am very dizzy and shaky this forenoon Have a cold and am tormented with fears of all sorts. This is the 4" anniversary of poor Maurices death and comes to me with a peculiar sadness in the midst of so many other sad things. My father had a fall today and feels a little stiff from it. There is constant danger of this and it would take so little to destroy his comparative comfort and freedom from pain. Mary went home by the 4.55 train very much to our regret. It is such a comfort to have her here. She is coming up for the summer as soon as she can get ready. I sent the description of our property to Calvert who will take it to Phillips & Wells. I dont expect much from this but it is one chance. I wrote to Mr. Geo. H. Miller of Wyalusing, Bradford Co. Pa today to ascertain if he is still living telling him I would like to write him about my father to whom he was a very grateful for care and attention when he had yellow fever at the Mountain House many years ago. 

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