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Sunday June 8. 1890. A cool day – too cool for summer clothes. Mary, Mrs Weld and took dinner with John & Julia and spent the afternoon with them. When we got home Girard told me Sam Coykendall had been here. At the election of officers of the U. & D.R.R. yesterday he was entirely left out.

Monday 9". We were at home all day until 4'oclock when we took a ride up through Kingston and out on Albany Avenue. It was a pretty warm day, windy and with a thick, hazy atmosphere. I have felt lame and dizzy today. My cold seems to be breaking up but I feel very out of sorts. A letter came to me from Laura saying they would come up on Saturday by the Powell if convenient for us. I had a letter from Sara written on Friday the day after John & Nannies arrival. She spoke very encouragingly of Nannie as being much less depressed and hoping this change was going to be beneficial. She was hoping John would drive up on Saturday and bring her (Sara) home on Sunday. I do hope she may be able to return soon.

Tuesday 10" Uncomfortably cold this morning. I wrote Laura it would be equally convenient to have them come Saturday – that Sara was still absent but I hoped she would return before then. I felt very badly and very discouraged and depressed. I am doing nothing and feel unable physically to do any thing. A feeling of wearing out time is one which an intelligent being should never experience. When I came back from the P.O. Mrs. Weld [[strikethrough]] Sara [[strikethrough]] Mary and I walked over to the cemetery. The grass on our lots remains uncut and gives it a neglected look. We took a ride at 4'oclock going up to Eddyville crossing the bridge and coming home by Port Ewen and Sleights ferry, [[strikethrough]] where [[strikethrough]] We arrived home about 6:30. Sara came about 7 from Clermont having brought some servant from there to the industrial house. She had also been to see John. She gave favorable reports of Nannie but she is very silent and does not talk unless spoken to. I do not feel sure she will remain there.

Wednesday 11". Rained in the night and has been showery with thunder & lightning during the day. John McEntee came up toward morning to see about the boundary of his lot but a shower came up and we could do nothing. Annie Norton and Julia called. A man came this evening and inquired for Mrs. Findley our servant. Sara took him to her. It was the priest from Wilbur come to hire her away from us by offering her larger wages and he has succeeded. He remarked to her "that if that lady knew what he came for she would not let him into the house" so he seemed to be aware he was engaged in a mean transaction. This naturally throws our household into confusion. Laura and her party are coming Saturday and servants are in demand for the mountain resorts, so there is no telling when or where we will get another – I am beginning to feel pretty anxious. Our assessment for Holmes St. is due in a few days and I have no money to meet it. The people will soon be flocking out of the city and we will have to be ready to receive those who every summer gravitate to us.

Thursday 12". Rainy and showery all day. Mrs. Weld and Mary went by the Day boat. The wagon was late and they had to hurry and went off in the rain but fortunately it did not rain hard. Our servant question is the most serious one just now. We have offered her $12 p. month and to let her have her little girl with her but she evidently is in awe of the priest and they will get her away. The more I think of that man coming here and deliberately urging her away from here the more it exasperates me. She has gone up to her sisters to confer with her but I feel sure we have lost her. I went down town this forenoon. This afternoon Tom and I cleared most of the things out of the carriage house and I went up on the roof and cleared