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Saturday June 26" 1887. Cool and bright, although we have had one shower today. I put on my winter clothes and find it too cool in the house and have had to go out on the back porch and sit in the sunshine. I perhaps feel a little better today but the weakness and the swimming feeling do not abate. We picked our first cucumber today. I have written to Alice, to Janette, to Miss Nesmith and to Mary. My father seemed very feeble this afternoon. I feel much alarmed

Monday 27" Sara slept in the room with my father last night but he rested quietly but does not feel bright this morning. I do not think I am as well as I was yesterday, am very weak and have that swimming, dizzy feeling. It is a bright cool day with north wind. Jamie and I drove over to Mrs. Folants lot and measured it off for her as well as we could. It is not exact, but near enough. Sara and Jamie had letters from Lucy this morning. They are still undecided what to do about having Jamie come home and he is disappointed at which I do not wonder for it is very dull and lonely here. I went down into the garden to try to weed a little and just as I got there Jamie came and told me Miss Gifford was here. When I came up I found Mary Gifford, come up from Pokeepsie. She told us of his engagement of Mr. Batchelder and Lily Wilkinson which gives great satisfaction all round. Nannie came while Mary was here and staid to tea. Mary went home with the 5.38 train urging me to come up and spend Sunday with her. Father has been very poorly today. Has a fever and looks more feeble than he ever has before. Sara and I are both troubled concerning him. I have felt better this afternoon and can walk more easily.

Tuesday 28.  My fathers fever seems to have left him but he looks and is very weak, totally unable to help himself or turn in bed. Sara was up the greater part of the night attending to him. I have written Mary that we think him in a failing condition and I hope she will come up. I wrote Mary by advice of Sara that we thought father in a very critical condition. Sara also wrote Lucy to the same effect. She had a letter from Mrs. Beldin nee Rachel Carle wanting to come here feeling she could be of service to me. She thinks she has been greatly benefitted by the "Faith cure". I fear I am not receptive of these new ideas which I know so little of - Still I am open to conviction. Jamie drove me down to Roundout after breakfast. I had my hair cut, bought a hat and settled with the Abbeys and did various errands. Cool last night and a perfect day today

Wednesday 29 I yesterday received a letter from Mr. Willis containing a check to my order "for the benefit of the family of James McEntee of fifty dollars. My impulse is to return it with a note acknowledging the kind feeling which prompted it. My father is about the same this morning. Sara staid with him all night. I went to bed early feeling much exhausted. I had been on my feet all day and am very weak. A letter came from Mary Gifford with a copy of sermons by Mr. Munger of New Haven. Mary says she is happy and wants to tell me how to be so. I feel no better today. Cannot see that I gain any strength. Sara has lain down to rest this afternoon and I have been with my father. He has grown so weak he can speak only with great difficulty but is conscious and knows me. Very restless when awake and constantly pulling the bed clothes up and putting them off. He takes no nourishment and has not for several days except a teaspoon full or two of buttermilk which is the only thing he will take at all. A note from Mary hopes she will come up tomorrow. I had a good letter from Mr. Sawyer. I grow very weak and weary as the day goes on.

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Theodore Thornton Munger: Ordained Pastor of Village Church, Dorchester, Mass. 1860. September 1. ... Installed Pastor of United Church, New Haven, Conn. ---------- Reopened for Editing 2023-05-17 14:42:58