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to their dining room and a very nice fire place making a most pleasant room of it. We spent a delightful evening in it before the fire. Mr. Bachelder has a bad cough and he and his wife are on their way to the South for the Winter. The home is very tasteful and comfortable and the hospitality what it always was sincere and abundant. A lovely day.

Friday Nov. 8" 1889.
It was raining a little this morning. Robert was obliged to go to N.Y. by an early train. He came away by the 10.40 H.R. train much to their regret. They urged us to stay longer but we had promised to be home today. I found a letter from Whittredge proposing a meeting of the A.M.A. Society on Wednesday evening and have written him that I will endeavor to be present. Mrs Reed Fanny Shingham took tea with us. After she had gone Sara told me she wanted to come and board here this winter. She had not spoken to her husband but she knows he would be delighted. I told her if she wished it I would consent. They are very agreeable people and as Sara will be alone it would be a good arrangement.

Saturday 9: Down town in the morning. Wrote Kenyon & Sharpe that if the releases were not sent today they had better write to Booths lawyer on Monday. I cant account for the delay. I took the 2.30 train for Albany to visit Bailey on Sunday. It was a grey day and had rained hard in the morning. I improved the forenoon by doing many things. Arrived at Albany Bailey met me at the station and we went to his office in State St. He is the Collector of the port. After a little we walked up towards his house, past the Capitol and stopped a little while at his club the Fort Orange and then to his house where I was cordially met by his family, his wife, his two daughters and his son. His eldest daughter is a beautiful girl of 21 and his younger son and daughter are twins 18 years old. We had tea and spent a very pleasant evening and had some games of cards.

Sunday 10". We did not have our breakfast until nearly 10 o clock. The morning was grey and misty. Bailey ordered his team and covered carriage about noon and he, his wife and younger daughter and I went for a long ride. We visited his farm on our return and saw his extensive arrangements for raising chickens about 200 of which he has at present. We reached his house near dark and dined and in the evening we had a walk up around the Park. His son is confined to the house with a lame knee from a fall from his horse.

Monday 11" I came home by the 9.50 train and came near being left. I jumped on the train just as it had started. I had a very pleasant visit and I hope they enjoyed me as much as I did them. I like Bailey very much. He is frank and sensible and cordial. I urged him to come and spend next Sunday with me, but he thought he might go to Washington and would take his wife with him. As soon as I got home I sat down and wrote him to come and bring his wife with him - Sara has made an arrangement to take Mr & Mrs Reed for the winter after Dec. 1". They proposed it and we know of no one who could be less objectionable. They are to have my room and pay $20 pr week including heating. Sara will not be alone now and will have such companionship as she likes, which is a satisfaction to me.

Tuesday 12" A beautiful Indian summer day. Down town early. Found a note from Keegan telling me the release for Dewey & North had come also a notice of a meeting of the A.M.A. at Woods Studio on Wednesday evening. Engaged men to come up and black my stove and put it up. Sara is getting the room ready for the Reeds. She had to take the covering from the mantlel piece which dear Gertrude made with her own hands and put up many years ago but which had become soiled and faded. I covered a chair while the men were at work on the stove. After dinner I went up to Kingston and got the release and walked back. The fine day is closing with indications of a storm tomorrow. I received a Morelia newspaper today from Roth, giving an account of the death by burning of Miss Bonilla, sister of the young man who kept the hotel Origuera. John & Julia came up and spent the evening and we began the reading of Prescotts Conquest of Mexico. I read the first two chapters.

Wednesday 13" I went down town immediately after breakfast and delivered the deeds of their lots to Isaac M. North and Frank D. Dewey and they each paid me $800. The day is mild and still but misty and threatening rain. Sara and I went down to the Presbyterian Church where they served a turkey dinner, for our dinner. It rained. John and Julia were there and Cantine and Miss Sheffield and we all sat together. We came back early after having bought several

Transcription Notes:
Morelia - Mexican city where McEntee stayed some years earlier; covered in a previous diary