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interview?? with him. We signed a petition, the usual formality to qualify as executors. Now he is to send a copy of the will to each heir and a request for them to sign giving consent to our acting under the provisions of the will and nothing more can be done until they are heard from. If there is no objection it will be a simple matter.

Wednesday July 6" 1887. A gloomy day with very hard showers and heavy thunder & lightning. I am feeling as though I would fall in pieces. I have written Lucy about my fathers will so that she will understand when the Surrogates papers come to her. I had a letter from Wood yesterday with a bill of $10. from Rankin for printing for the Artists M.A. Society and today came the same bill to me from Rankin. I also had a letter from Alice and one from Mr. Willis. Sara is at work in our fathers room putting away his clothes etc. Calvert went back to N.Y. this morning. Life looks very sober and uncertain to me today.

Thursday 7. Warm today but clear, rich atmosphere and North wind A letter came from Gertrude thanking me for mine but intimating she would not come here. I told her we would always be glad to see her, as I had told her before, as long as we remained here. There was a kind of bitterness in all its kind expressions. I am no better and have kept quiet. It is a week this morning since our father died. It seems much longer. I wrote Mary Gifford.

Friday 8" A beautiful morning and I am feeling unusually strong and vigorous, but with the "swimming" feeling when I exert myself. Have written to Dr. Taylor a statement of my case and asked him what he would advise. John, Nannie, and Ettie Carr came up last evening. John had been to Binnewater to an entertainment of the Engineers Society by Fred, (vicariously) he being ill in Europe. There was a fine spread by Mozetti of N.Y. with champagne etc for 250 people and only about 50 came.

Saturday 9. Do not feel so well today, the same weak limp feeling. Have written to Janette, Weir, Whittredge and sent a paper to Mrs. Steele. A letter came from Lucy last night written last Sunday, greatly alarmed about my father as she had received Saras letter saying he was not so well, but hoping as we had not telegraphed he was better. He had then been laid in his grave. She will probably not have received my letter telling her of his death until Tuesday last. She will be shocked but in some measure prepared.

Sunday 10" Calvert came last night. A letter from Lucy last evening dated July 4th. Both my letters had come at once and she was greatly shocked and grieved at her father's death and regretted we had not telegraphed. I have written to Mr. McEntee today and to Antoinette Sterling. Girards wife had a letter from Laura from London telling her of a visit to Madame Sterling. There is a fine brisk breeze today but I feel very weak and "swimmy" It grew cool toward evening.

[[crossed-out]] Tuesday [[/crossed-out]] Monday 11" A cool, charming day. Calvert went to N.Y. Letters from Mary Gifford, Mr. Bachelder and Eastman Johnson, and one from Dr. Taylor He thinks my trouble is not central, but is inclined my anxieties have much to do with my condition and rather advises going away. I have felt perhaps a trifle better. I walked over to where they are at work on Mrs Folants house and back and seem none the worse for it. Rachel Belden (nee (Carle) came this afternoon. It is rather difficult for me now to see people but I must try to be agreeable to her as she wants to help me by the Christian Science method, in which I have not too much faith. A Mrs.

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