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could least afford to spare but finally agreed to go down at 2 o clock, and I changed clothes before dinner and expected to go, but as Downings time is limited and valuable, and as I really have little choice in this monument business, it not being at all what I recommended and want, and as this matter of getting our land laid out for sale is very important, I made up my mind I would not spare the time. Accordingly I wrote Genl. Sharpe a polite note, stating how it would spoil and confuse my plans to leave my work and how little choice I had in the matter of the designs, I should be obliged to ask him to release me from my engagement. I sent it to him by Girard who stopped in to tell me Coykendall has not discounted the note I endorsed, but gives him some hope that he will in ten or fifteen days. I doubt it, but Girard seems not to. Sara went to tea with Julia Dillon to Miss Isabel Forsyths. It seems she was greatly disappointed that I did not come as she supposed of course I understood I was included. I am very tired tonight for I have had a busy and perplexing day.

Wednesday Aug. [[strikethrough]] 6 [[/strikethrough]] 7" 1889. Another perfect day. Downing and I got to work early and kept steadily at it all day. It was very hard for me to go up and down the side hill as we were obliged to do several times. We thought we would not be able to finish but we worked after tea until dark and in the evening Downing made a plot of the ground. He left for Cazenovia by the train at 11.55 in the evening from Kingston. I was pretty well tired out.

Thursday [[strikethrough]] 7 [[/strikethrough]] 8". Fine weather but not so brilliant as yesterday. I went down to see John McEntee to tell him what we had done. He was going to Athens by the 11 o'clock train and urged me to go along which I did. It was a beautiful day, the view was very pretty and I enjoyed our outing. We had dinner at the hotel at Athens and got back home about 3.30. Girard told me this morning that Capt. Van Kensen told him yesterday he would take one of two lots on Chester St. He wants the one next the Baker lot but his wife wants one next wood and he is to see her on Sunday in Arkville and let Girard know on Monday.
[[left margin]] Picked Bartlett pears [[/left margin]]

[[strikthrough]] Thursday 8[[/strikethrough]] Friday 9" The honors of the Fine Art Department at the Paris exposition in the American department have been awarded as everyone expected they would be, the members of the Jury being (for the United States) were educated and living in Paris, in conjunction with Rush Hawkins the art commissioner —— It has been cloudy and threatening and has rained a little. Tom has begun to dig the potatoes which turn out finely, those on which I used the glue factory fertilizer being better than those treated with phosphates. I went down town to do the usual errands and when I returned I made out another plan of laying out our land here on the hill which seems to me an improvement upon the other one. I have spent most of the day making measurements and drawing the plan. As I had to do the measuring above it is of course not accurate but was enough for present purpose.
[[Left margin]] Digging potatoes [[/left margin]]

Saturday 10" Threatening this morning but finally a pleasant day. I went down town but have not felt very energetic. Walked about the place studying the plan and in the afternoon I wrote to Gustave Roth in Morelia. Calvert came up on the train reaching here a little after 6. We are to discuss the plans tomorrow. We are having cool and lovely moonlight nights Last night slept under two blankets. The summer is going rapidly and my art seems almost a forgotten thing.

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