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kill which is the name of their P.O. When they went away we gave him a little paper bag of candy and some grapes and I put in a five dollar bill for Gertrude to whom I have never given any thing. Katy has eight children and two sons young men, who are devoted to her and support her.

Sunday Oct. 27" 1889. It rained in the night and has rained all day gently. The earth is soaked and steaming and the trees are bare and forlorn I sat by a nice wood fire in the parlor and read and wrote. Girard and the children came over and spent a good part of the forenoon and Mary came over with them in the afternoon. Dwight was resplendent in a new suit with six pockets as he observed. I have looked over all the Tribunes which Sara kept for me during my absence and read what I wished to. I have written to Mr. Hubbard the Marine map man, To Alice and to Mary and a note to Calvert accompanying the two deeds I am to send him tomorrow, Deweys' & Norths. It has been a quiet, restful day at home and I have been content and happy.

Monday 28" Grey, quiet day. Went down town and got John to sign the deeds to North and Dewey and sent them to Calvert in N.Y. to sign and I also wrote him to ask if he had come to any conclusion about selling me the place. Have been at home all day busy about many things I have made a plan for converting the carriage house into a very nice house and hope Girard may be able to have it.

Tuesday 29" Sara and I went down town together this morning. She had bought for a Xmas present for me a little desk at Stock & Rices which I had taken a fancy to and yesterday hearing me say I wished I had a desk for my papers He told me of this and so we had it sent up today. I like it even better than I thought I should and already find it a great comfort. While I was in at Girards a man came in and spoke to him whom I did not notice at first. It proved to be Mr. Foster, abolitionist, nursery man, Methodist preacher, and general regulator. I had an impression he was dead, but here he was looking well and prosperous and younger than when he went away. He is living in Albany with his sister. His wife died this spring. His daughter is married to a man near Oakland Md. who has a fruit farm She has six children. It is sixteen years since they went away from here. My father with whom he was very intimate at one time lost faith in him and felt very hard towards him, but I always had a kind of pity for him as one of the Devils poor and was able to condone his alleged crookedness. He gave me a cordial invitation to come and see him in Albany and I asked him to call at our house, but confess I was relieved when he told me he was going back to Albany by the boat just then. I went down town the second time after dinner and this afternoon have been measuring down at the barn and stable, calculating for a building for a wood house & in case I buy this place and find I can make one very easily. The weather has been cooler today. We still sit in the parlor and I am reading Irvings adventures of Capt. Bonneville aloud.

Monday 30" Down town after breakfast. Calvert returned the deeds with his signature and wrote a brief note saying he had written John regarding my purchase of the place and he would probably see me. Waited for Girard who did not come and finally came up home where I found him in bed with a sore throat. I went to Kingston and had Kenyon make out the release and Ser. Sharpe is to send it to Berths lawyer and notify me when it is returned. I did not get home until nearly 2 o clock. It has been a brooding, grey day with indications of snow at one time. After dinner I read the Tribune and then went over to Chester St. where Mis Bakers and Mis Gregorys houses are going up, to see if any one had been digging sand or cutting sods. I went to the cemetery to see the headstone of Maurices grave which was put up while I was gone and for which I have wholly paid. It is of blue stone and is very satisfactory. When I came home I made copies of the North and the Dewey deeds to keep. I received a note this morning, marked last evening at Berlin, from Mr. Lucius L. Hubbard telling me he had sent me his guide book by mail which came this afternoon. I have written him and sent him my check for $1.25 

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