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Friday March 16" 1888. All day at the Academy where we are getting on well. The exhibitions will cause discussions for its variety and cast. Mary & Sara came to my room to select a little picture for a wedding gift to Alice Crawford. It has begun to rain. Spoke this evening with Mary & Sara. The streets are in a fearful condition now that the great body of snow is melting. When I came to my room I found a letter from Girard dated the 15". They had received no mail from New York until Wednesday. The storm was not quite so severe there. I also had a letter from Janette Hubbard. 

Saturday 17" Colder this morning. I went to the dentists at half past eight, and had a front tooth filled up under the gum and was tortured by the operation. From there I went to Wilmurts and ordered a frame for a small picture and then to the Academy to hang pictures, where I had been all day and tonight am tired and discouraged. I have not yet been paid the receipts of my sale. Ortgies told me on Wednesday he would send a check as soon as his book keeper, who had been storm bound at Orange, came in and I have heard nothing since. If they were not reliable men I should be uneasy, but as it is I want the money to pay some bills. 

Sunday 18" Colder this morning but it has been a bright, fine day. Mary, Sara and I walked up to 48" St. and heard Heber Newton. His sermon was on the motives which induced a correct life. The doing good for fear of punishment - because it paid - and for the sake of the good. He was interesting and serious, a little unjust to earlier Universalists, and it struck me, slightly sensational in his oratory, although I may be mistaken in the latter. We walked down also and Fifth Avenue was crowded with people. Calvert and I called in the Churches at the Brevoort house last night. Mrs. Church had to lie on the sofa all the while we were there and Church had evidently arisen from his lounge when we came in He looked very ill to me and his hands are twisted with rheumatism. 

Monday 19". All day at the Academy. My account of sale and check for the balance due me came from Ortgies & Co. this afternoon $4,978 exclusive of $750. advanced to me. Calvert and I went around to the club to hear Muybridges lecture on the locomotion of animals. I met Eastman there and an old friend of his a Mr. Campbell who was consul at Rotterdam while Eastman was in Holland. I am very lame unusually so it seems to me and it gives me great trouble. A letter came from Lucy who had just received mine telling her about my sale. It did not realize her hopes but she made the best of it.

Tuesday 20" Still at the Academy. We adjourned early as we were all very tired. We are getting towards the end but it seems very difficult Clarke at the club last night told me of several people who came to my sale purposed to pay a great deal more for my paintings. He said he would have given me $500 in my room, the day he called before my sale, for my Eastern Sky at Sunset, but then I could understand why he would not pay 450 for it at the Academy. I deposited my check $4,978 today and sent Tom W. Girard $50. It is rainy and disagreeable.

Wednesday 21" To the dentists. It rained in torrents just before I went to breakfast and has rained all day. All day at the Academy. Tomorrow will I think finish the hanging. This would have been our dear fathers 88" birth day had he lived. Lucys photograph of our mother, the best one we have of her came today from Fort Bridger safely. I am to use it on painting. A portrait of her this summer I hope. Went to Bijou to see The "Pearl of Pekin" nonsense and rich characters

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Unable to read all of the words clearly. [[?]] placed where word was not clear. ---------- Reopened for Editing 2023-05-18 11:14:36 because there are greater than 2 [[?]] and many errors beside. Ortgies & Co is his agent/gallery. ---------- Reopened for Editing 2023-05-19 21:09:06 .