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certainly hope they will not be able to ruin him as he says Joe has declared he will. They staid until 10 oclock and I think it was a relief to them to be able to talk frankly to us.

Saturday June 28" 1890. I slept very well last night and worked a little in the garden after breakfast when I started out to see Mrs. John Van Gaasbeck. She was not at her home but I found her over at the old place and explained to her that I wanted her children to sign the release of Mortgage. She said they generally came to her house every Saturday and she will arrange to have them all there at a certain time and all sign it together. When I got home I began to feel ill and exhausted and have had to lie down at intervals through the day. The men are blasting their rock very effectually and I think will be done by Monday night. Annie Norton came this forenoon and prepared for us and Julia and John to come up and spend the 4th of July with them at High Falls which invitation we gladly accepted. Sara promised the girl who has agreed to come Sunday that she can have the 4th to herself and this arrangement will just suit us. Lucy's little girl has been here today. She says her mother wishes she had never left here and talks of coming back which we hope she will do. It was very warm in the afternoon.

Sunday 29" A fine cool morning. I feel better although I am very lame the muscles in the calf of my left leg being very rigid and sore. I have written to Mary, to Royal Reed and to Miss Nesmith as well as a note to the man who wove our carpet telling him we do not like the stripe which we specifically told him not to put in. I got the ladder and picked a few cherries as we have hardly had a taste of them. Sara had a letter from Lucy yesterday. They had all been camping out at Henry's Fork. Downing had killed a deer and they had had no end of fishing. Our new servant girl Katy Moore came this evening as she agreed to and that is in her favor.

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OLIVER INGRAHAM LAY.
Tribune  June 29
Oliver Ingraham Lay, the artist, died from consumption at his country home, at Stratford, Conn., last evening, age forty-five. He was born in this city, and studied art at the Cooper Union and Academy of Design schools, and afterward as a pupil of Thomas Hicks, He was elected an associate of the Academy of Design in 1876, and became well known as a painter of portraits and figures. He was a member of the Artist Fund Society and the Century Club. His latest paintings, "Edwin Booth as Hamlet" and the "Last Days of Aaron Burr," are among the best examples of his work. The portraits of Robert Ray, Cornelius Ray and Nathaniel Prime, in the Chamber of Commerce; of General Grant, at the United States Court of Appeals Chamber, at Albany, are from his easel. A few months before his death the Century Club purchased the "Last Days of Aaron Burr." He leaves a widow and two sons. The funeral will take place at the Church of the Covenant, Park-ave. and Thirty-fifth-st. 1890
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Monday 30" This is the third anniversary of our fathers death. Even in his latter years of helplessness I always had the feeling of support in him for his faith and his moral courage were unfailing. Now I have to stand alone and to act upon my own judgement unaided by his wise counsel. It has been a beautiful day, hot in the sunshine but with a cool breeze from the N. Our new girl makes a favorable impression and seems modest and willing and industrious and we have a feeling of relief. The men will finish the blasting for the water pipe this evening and tomorrow it will be laid. One of the men, Jack Ryan was taken ill with colic and could not work the whole forenoon but Tom supplied his place at the drill and the blasting went on. He went to work later. The above notice of Oliver Lays death I cut from the Tribune yesterday. It was a great surprise to me as he seemed a young man. He was a very gentle, amiable man and I regret his early death. I went to see Mrs. John Van Gaasbeck at 8 oclock this morning. She had arranged with her children to be at her house at 7 oclock on Wednesday evening. I then went to Rondout to the post office and took the car to Kingston to tell Kenyon of the arrangements and his clerk Etting is to meet me at the Car Stable at 7 oclock Wednesday when we hope to get their signatures. I also saw Peter who will sign then. I rode down to the W.S. Station and walked from there. I feel much better today and not so lame and sore and have a better appetite, but my catarrhal cold does not seem to improve much. 

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