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453 he had been on the grounds but admitted he did not know it was for sale. They intimated that he might come here before seeing them again but wished me to consider him as their customer. I have written them that I will be here for a week or ten days and will be glad to see him and show him how pleasant it is in winter. Tuesday Jan. 24" 1888. Somewhat milder this morning although it has been a cold day. Just before dark the mercury was down to 7. The Ludlums sent their sleigh for us this morning and Sara and I went up there taking Woods portrait of Gertrude and mine from my room to show to Helen. She was lying on her couch and Mrs. Waters' children were playing in her room into which the bright winter sunshine poured. It was a great event to her. Dear Gertrude used often to go to visit her and she spoke of her today with warm interest. I went mainly to see if Mrs. Tolles portrait of her mother needed varnishing and advised her to have nothing done to it as it had not sunk in and needed nothing. We were there nearly an hour and then they sent us home after arranging to come for us at 3:30 to go to Kingston to call on the Clarks in their new house. I wrote to Eastman to come up and stay a while with me while Sara is gone and took it down to the office after breakfast and got Saras tickets for Utica & return. At 3:30 Mrs. Waters and Anna Ludlum called for us and we drove up to call on the Clarks and the Searings. Mrs. Searing was at the Clarks and struck me as a bright, agreeable woman - knew many of my friends in N.Y. the Champneys, Stedmans & others. The Clarks house is very pretty and cheerful and will be still prettier when the walls are colored. I do not however think the interior harmonizes with the exterior. For my taste I would have liked it a little more quiet and partaking more of the old Dutch character. However it is a very pretty house indeed- We had a very pleasant call and Mrs. Clarke showed us all over the house, the views from which are charming. We rode through Kingston having got Frank Waters and came home pleased to have met some pleasant people. Sara is to go by the 6:30 tomorrow to take the 7 o'clock train for Utica. It will be pretty lonely here while she is gone. Wednesday 25" I heard the sleigh drive up for Sara [[newspaper clipping]] MORE-In Rock Island, Ills., on January 21, 1888, Sara More, widow of the late William C. More, aged 70 years. Funeral will take place at the residence of A.A. Crosby, Abeel-street, on Thursday afternoon, January 26, at 2 o'clock. Relatives and friends are invited to attend.[[/newspaper clipping]] 454 this morning about 6:30. The house was so warm we thought it must have moderated but the moment she opened the door she found it very cold. Shortly after 7 o clock the mercury showed 9° below zero, but the house was more comfortable than it has been any morning since the extreme weather. While I was at breakfast Downing came in having come up on the train reaching Kingston at 7. He saw Sara at the station who was to take that same train. Downing and I went downtown after breakfast and after attending to some errands we got a horse and cutter and drove out to Aunt Katrinas lake house by the brickyards and the river road. It was a bright, sparkling morning and crowds of men and horses were at work on the ice getting it into the ice houses. We came back by the Saugerties road and had lunch at 1 o'clock. A little after 3 we went over to the slide and rode until it closed at 5. Downing had never tobogganed before and enjoyed it greatly. He remained and had two or three rides after hours with Miss Cuspell on a steel shod toboggan which is not permitted when others are riding. We had dinner at 6 and Downing walked up to the station to take the 7:45 train. It began to snow at dusk and was snowing hard. I went over to Girards to see if they were going over to the toboggan carnival tonight but he thought the storm would prevent it. Thursday 26. A foot of snow must have fallen and the country seemed buried under it this morning. I heard a knock at the front door a little after daylight. It was Tom. Katy had got locked in her room and could not get out and I had to let him in. I went down town after breakfast and it began to snow when I returned. It has been the wildest day I ever experienced on the hill. Dyer's man came up with some groceries and found he could not get back the snow had drifted so. I hope Sara is snug with Janette and Emily. This would have been a fearful day to be caught on the road. A telegram came from Eastman about 5 o'clock saying he hoped to come up on Saturday forenoon but would telegraph me later. The Freeman reports the storm as general and severe. It announces also the death of Robert Kerr (Mrs Huttons father) at the age of 83. Also the wife of Erich Carter, and the funeral of Mrs. W.C. More today from Mr. Crosbys. I forgot it was to be today but could not have gone. I wonder they did not postpone it. There will be no tobogganing tonight. The wind still blows (8 oclock) but not so hard. Friday 27" It was not nearly so cold this morning
