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tomorrow in my studio painting with very little satisfaction. I have begun a small autumn picture but whether I will be able to make it interesting is doubtful. Sara had a letter from Alice today whom she invited to visit us. She fears she will not be able to, and is full of anxieties and worries.

Wednesday June 12" 1889 I went down to the car stables to see Mr. DeGarmo to see if he would not take our grass and give me manure for it. He thought he would make an arrangement and offered to come up here at 4. I told him Tom was at work cutting it but as the day was very unsettled and showery he advised not cutting until the weather is settled. I came back home and stopped Tom cutting and then went downtown to see about the payment for Mrs. Gregorys lot as our assessment for Chester St. comes due tomorrow. Girard went to see her but she has to go and see her son and is to come to him tomorrow. DeGarmo came as he agreed and says he will take the hay. Tom is to cut and cure it and cock it up and DeGarmo is to draw it down and weigh it and pay me the market price and and draw manure for me for the pay. He startled me by saying he had seen my father and shaken hands with him. He is a spiritualist and says Whiting Knapp has been with him, of course through a medium. These things have little effect on me but he says he is as sure of these things as of any event or occurrence of his life. It has rained in little showers all through the day and grass cut a week ago is still on the ground. I am depressed and discouraged because I am idle. I had a letter from Miss Nesmith today. She is just about to go on her vacation. Tom is picking some cherries over at my place. They are rotting very fast and we will have only a very few. I shall not be sorry when the trees are done bearing. They bring a rabble about and we get little from them.

Thursday 13" One bright day. Tom has cut a little more of the grass but not much as I am afraid it may rain. This was the last day for paying our assessment for grading Chester St. The money from the sale of the lot to Mrs. Gregory has not come. Girard has been attending to it. Today he sent me word he had not seen her and that he was not going to his office as he had a headache. I went down and sent Girards young man up to see her. She said she would come in half an hour but came in an hour and a half and the result is she will pay the money on July 1 and we will have to pay 2 per ct on our assessment of $400. All these affairs worry me and I am in a most discouraged frame of mind. I saw several wretched people on my way downtown and everybody seemed to be having a hard time. This is wrong and morbid. I had a note from Church. He had had a letter from Mr. Penniman who told him they were to be at Newport this summer and wanted me to come and make them a visit. I am in a fine condition to visit such rich and flourishing people, nonetheless it is very kind in them to invite me.

Friday 14". No rain today but great humidity and not a clear sunshine. Tom is cutting the grass between here and my house and has about 15 cocks pretty well cured. Sara had a letter from Lucy today and I had one from Mary telling us about Sedgwicks and Marions starting for Fort Bridger. They went on Monday by the Chicago limited, returned express and she had a postal card from them saying they arrived in Chicago at 9:50 the next day, just 24 hours. They probably arrived at Fort Bridger yesterday although I thought they would get there today. I went downtown and bought strawberries for Sara which she canned. They did 

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haycock: a conical mound of hay ---------- Reopened for Editing 2023-05-24 15:44:37