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Thursday Apl. 10" 1890. Down town to do some errands. Wrote to Lucy. Mrs Crane and Anna called while Sara had gone down to their house.

Friday 11. Cool but bright. Tom and Rommel to help him put up the old stove in the lower kitchen as Sara intends to use the upper kitchen this summer. Tom also took the covering from the cistern on the outside master bath room. I planted some lettuce In the evening Sara and I went down after John and Julia to call on the Coykendalls. John was not at home but we three marched down there to find they were not at home.

Saturday 12" Tom came running into the house and said the fence on the side hill was on fire. I have been expecting this. We each took a pail of water and went down. It had just been set fire back of the concrete homes and we put it out before it had done much damage. We found a whole box of matches and it had evidently been done purposely by mischievous boys. We went down after dinner and raked the leaves together and burned all that were dry enough to burn.

Sunday 13" We dined at John McEntees and after dinner John took us for a ride out on the Flat bush road and around by Charlie Livingstons. Returning the road was almost impassable from ruts and mud. There is no pleasure riding on our roads and I am glad we do not keep horses. It was uncomfortably warm.

Monday 14". We burned leaves on the side hill most of the day. We took down the canvas partition in the hall. It was so warm we had all the doors open and the grass is looking green. Lucy the new servant came, a middle aged woman. Katy Hillis left, but is to come tomorrow to get her trunk. We gave her good recommendations and she seemed sorry to leave for I think she has become attached to us as we had to her.

Thursday 15. Cold. 5° below freezing in the morning but grew warm later. I have felt very badly all day, very weak and confused and when I went down town felt that I could hardly drag myself back up the hill still I felt somewhat better as the day advanced. I feel however that I am not able to make much exertion. In the afternoon I went down on the side hill and burned the few remaining leaves. Van Etten came to measure the property on Chester St. for taxation. I found that the little building adjoining our concrete house, and put up for Dr. Montague is not on my land as I had supposed and that the concrete house lot will have to include that building. I came to N.Y. by 8.25 evening train and reached my room about midnight. Katy left for N. Y. today and came to bid us good bye. I think she feels badly. The new servant seems efficient and I hope will prove satisfactory. I found her cards announcing the marriage of Mr. & Mrs. Robertsons daughter Eliza to Mr. Solis at Miraflores, Mexico. A note from Genl Sharpe written the 8" after I had gone home wanting me to go up and see the statue of the sailor for our WUlster Co. Monument. A request for a check from Rock and a bitter partisan letter to Pres. Harrison published in the Post sent by Eastman Johnson who I am sorry to say now enjoys any abuse of the Republican party of which he was once a loyal and enthusiastic member.

Wednesday 16" Rather cold and blustering this morning. I awoke feeling depressed and unhappy and that I am gradually being drawn out of the city where I once had some reputation and position as an artist. I am making my preparations to leave and feel that if I never return I will not be missed by many. I went over to

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DINNER AT THE ACADEMY OF DESIGN.
The dinner of the National Academy of Design, which took place last evening in the south gallery of the building, more than met the expectations of the artists and their friends. With the paintings, the decorations and the flowers which stood in profusion on the nine tables, the room was truly a "thing of beauty." Judging from the success of the entertainment, which was modelled after the dinners of the Royal Academy in London, it will have many repetitions in the years to come. Covers were laid for 125 guests. Daniel Huntington presided. At his right and left sat W. E. Dodge, H. G. Marquand, C. S. Smith, Andrew Carnegie, Sir Donald Smith, E. J. Phelps, J. S. Kennedy, Cornelius Vanderbilt, George Williams Curtis and Parke Godwin, Joseph H. Choate and others, whose eloquent and appropriate addresses were applauded again and again. Reluctantly the artists and their friends said good night.

Among others present were Louis C. Tiffany, Albert Bierstadt, Thomas Moran, L. P. di Cesnola, M. F. H. de Haas, W. T. Evans, E. Carey, J. C. Beckwith, Augustus St. Gaudens, W. Shirlaw, F. J. de Peyster, J. W. Pinchot, J. Seligman, H. Drisler and W. M. Chase.
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