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bass but we had a delightful afternoon. There were several parties there during the afternoon. We rowed down the creek to the rock at the turn and came home about half past 6. I feel very cheerful and hopeful. I suppose it is because my mind is occupied with the arrangements for the proposed sale of our place. I spoke to John about my buying the house and two lots with it and one in the rear and he said he thought I ought to do it and could do it. If I can without involving myself any more I think Sara and I will buy it together. I had a note from Downing in which he said he and Calvert would come up tomorrow afternoon.
 
Saturday Aug. 17" 1889. A charming day very like yesterday in temperature. I went down town early and have been over at my studio this afternoon painting on my mothers portrait which I do not succeed with very well. Calvert and Downing came this evening. It is more like an October than an August evening. I saw a glow=worm this evening for the first time. 

[[newspaper clipping]] [[note]] Freeman Aug. 16. 89. Died Aug. 11" [[/note]]
The funeral of the late Palmer A. Canfield was held this afternoon at the family residence on Holmes-street. The Rev. A. K. Fuller, Pastor of the Wurts-Street Baptist Church, and the Rev. O. Haviland, Pastor of St. James M. E. Church, officiated. There was a large attendance. Rondout Lodge, No. 343, R. & A. M., of which the deceased had been a member for many years, was present, and the pall-bearers were from its ranks, as follows: J. H. Allen, William Hutton, William Winter, A. A. Crosby, Richard Thorpe and James G. Tabby. The deceased was interred with Masonic honors, Past Master John B. Alliger officiating as Chaplain. The interment was in Montrepose Cemetery.
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Sunday 18" The same delightful weather. Calvert and I have been at work all day on the details of the plotting the property and this evening we went down and spent the evening with John and decided important matters. Calvert goes back to N.Y. tomorrow morning but Downing will remain to stake out the lots and the streets.

Monday 19". A fine day, not so brilliant as yesterday and warmer. Downing and I worked all day putting in the stakes of the streets and the lots and when we had finished he plotted it, on his first plan changing the lines to conform with Calverts memorandum.

Tuesday 20." I set Tom at work mowing the grass on the streets as laid out and digging the sod at the edges to mark the limits which he has pretty well advanced. I directed him in this and arranged the liens. I found that Downing had made an error in two of the stakes which I left standing but dug the sod on the new line. Gussie Pullman called here in her way for her mother who is at Walden with George. We invited her to come here with her mother on their return. I wrote a letter to Booth asking him what proportion of the proceeds of our sale he would require in order to free the lots sold from the mortgage. I wrote him a formal business note and in addition I wrote a more familiar, friendly letter and enclosed it with it and shall send them tomorrow to "The Players" unless I get a letter from Cantine tomorrow morning today being the limit at which my offer of our place for $30.000 holds good.— Mrs Wesley Hale called this evening with her father, the brother of Mr Terry the Methodist Clergyman who was stationed here.

Wednesday 21" Perhaps the warmest day of the season. I sent off my letter to Booth and the one to Calvert. Tom has finished cutting the grass and outlining the two streets and I feel now our venture is fully launched. I attended the adjourned committee meeting for the selection of the soldiers monument at the Eagle hotel. Mr Carr a representative of Frederick and field for whom we sent for consultation was there and after a long talk and again going over the plans we finally settled upon what was the second choice at our last meeting - a granite structure surmounted by a figure of Liberty 16 ft high and two projecting buttresses at the base with a bronze statue of a soldier on our 

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