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clothes in my trunks in the garret. After dinner Sara and I walked down to Punkhockie and called on Dr. Magee and Mrs. Stebbins. Dr Magee has resigned his pastorate and intends to go away by the 1" of June. I am sorry for he is a kind agreeable man, perhaps a little sentimental, but that is better than to have no sentiment. Then we called on Stephen Abbey whom we saw, a feeble old man. He seemed glad to see us saying he always wanted to see the McEntees. He is almost helpless now. Mrs Legrand Abbey had gone to N.Y. and he seemed to be there alone with the servant and Legrands little boy. Life must be dull and wearisome under such conditions. How much more blessed was Mr. Gifford who retained his faculties almost up to the hour of his death. We did not stay long for fear of tiring him. He said he regretted the Mrs. Legrand who was the daughter of an Universalist clergy man had become orthodox. I asked him if he still read the Leader. He said no. That he had wanted Henry to subscribe for it but he had not done it. It made me sad to see him so infirm From here we called on the Cranes. They too have but their property and are, I imagine only living in their house in sufferance. Mrs. Crane looked old and I feel a great sympathy for her. We next went to Ned Tomkins and saw him, Mrs. Tad[[?]] and Mrs. Snyder and later Henry. They wanted us to stay to tea but we declined not daring to tell them we had left Mary at home. Mrs. T. told Sara she had had a letter from Laura. She and Gertrude were at the Cove and they wrote they were coming up next week to visit them for a day or two. We are not supposed to know any thing about them. Well they may come and go. We will none of us go to see them. If they come here we will be as cordial as we can but we are not to be influenced by this sort of tactics. We next went over and made our wedding call on Mrs. Rob. Tomkins in her pretty little new house which she showed to us with great pleasure. Her father was Mr Ainsley of Albany who kept an art store and who knew all the Albany artists. She had pictures of Brighton, Jas Hart, Tom Smith and others and a Sepia drawing by Vanderlyn an allegorical subject I did not understand. We walked back home. It was a perfect day, a little warm walking but the spring landscape is in its perfection now, the apple blossoms disappearing but the foliage almost at its full, and every thing much earlier than last year. 

Sunday 12 May 1889. Cooler but a beautiful day. Have written Church we would go up there on Wednesday. Cantine and his little daughter came up for a while. I think he must he very lonely and misses his wife, but he will miss her more later when people cease to talk with him about her. John McEntee drove up to ask me if he could keep his horses in the stable while he repairs his barn. We spoke of going trout fishing and have arranged to go out to Big Indian tomorrow and try the Esopus Creek in that vicinity. I sent a list of my Academy pictures to the Art Guild to be sent to the Milwaukee exhibition. I called down to John this evening. He told us today that Ettie Livingston was engaged to a Clergyman in Baltimore. Cantine told us Mr Magee was to leave. It seems his congregation requested him to. The moon is nearly full and the temperature cool and delightful.

Monday 13" John McEntee and I went out to Big Indian by the 7.50 

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many errors in the transcription (Indeed!) 5/22 - corrected lots and lots of words but there are 4 [[?]]s, too many to be marked for review, pls fill in ---------- Reopened for Editing 2023-05-24 14:15:51 .