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Real Estate Transfer.
S. D. Coykendall has purchased the Jervis McEntee residence and a large part of the property belonging to the estate of James S. McEntee. Calvin Vaux, architect, has received instructions to prepare plans for a residence.
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been a beautiful day. I went down town and saw Sam to ask him how soon he would want Tom to vacate my house. He thought he could stay there all winter. He told me he had this item put in the paper and that Mary had been to see her Mother and told her they had bought our place. Several people spoke to me about it and most people seem to think the purchase includes this place. From down town I rode up to the West Shore station to make inquiries about the excursion to Lake George on Saturday and then came home and wrote a note to Booth who is at Narragansett Pier telling him I had sold my place and a great part of the Homestead property and asked him to let me know when he would be in N.Y. so that I could go down and arrange with him for a settlement. I have been at work a good part of the day making out a statement of affairs between us. I told Tom my place had been sold which he had heard and he said he did not want to go and live down town. I asked him why he did not buy a lot and build a little house. Later he asked me how much the concrete house below the hill was worth. I told him I would think of it and let him know. Girard thought we could sell it for $3.500 or 3000 Tom said he could keep a couple of boarders there. Sam and his son Ed. Came up after tea and went over to look at the 3 lots on Chestnut St and the two on Jervis St. which I have given him the refusal of at $3.000. He talked of the rest of the garden but I dont think he can have that, at least not now. Mrs. Cross and her daughter called. Sara wanted me to go over to my studio with them and we went Mrs. Anderson & Lily called this evening. Lily is a very pretty young woman. I sent Freemans with the notice of the sale to Janette Hubbard, to Mrs. Swan, to Eastman Johnson and to Mr. Sawyer. A letter from Church asking Sara and me to come and visit them. Sara has written Mrs. C.

Wednesday July 23" 1890. Another thoroughly lovely day of delightful temperature. Sara went to N.Y. by the 8 10 train. We had our breakfast at 6. Calvert and Marion were to sail today. I went down town and saw John about selling the concrete house to Tom. He advises selling but before I put a price on it I will see how large the lot is tomorrow when Van Eltan comes to make the survey. Have been busy most of the day over accounts and seeing to keeping matters straight. I wrote to Church and told him we could not come up now. We need rain very much as the ground is very dry.
[[left margin]] Picked the first ripe tomato. [[/left margin]]

Thursday 24" Threatening weather but only a slight sprinkle of rain. I wrote Lucy yesterday and sent it this morning enclosing a diagram of what we have sold. I expected John Van Eltan this morning to survey for me. He did not come until this afternoon and has been all afternoon with two assistants running the line between me and Van Deusen from Chestnut to Holmes St. 522 ft. He stopped at 5 in order to see if there is not some record of the line of Holmes St. I had a letter from Bonyer wanting to borrow my tent dated from 7 Bowling Green. I dont know whether to write to him there or at Rankins. He may have left the latter place.

Friday 25. It rained gently nearly all day and it has done a world of good as grass and gardens and even trees were dried up and dying. It ceased in the afternoon but did not clear. Sara and I went up to John Forsyths to tea. We had a cab from Smiths to take us and bring us home. There were Mrs. Miller and her two pretty daughters Miss Miller and Mrs. Chadwick, wife of Commander Chadwick of the Navy, Mr & Mrs. Cross, Mrs. Forsyths mother, Mrs. Fomlinson, Mr. Van Slyke and Mr. Augustus Bruyn - Miss Isabella Forsyth, making the ominous number 13. Johns place is very pretty, I think one of the choicest situations about Kingston.- We had a letter from Lucy today giving us a very graphic account of the death and burial there of Capt Haughey of their regiment, which occurred as they were preparing for a ball.

Saturday 26". It rained very hard most of the night and was very dubious this morning. Still we had our breakfast a little early and then went up to the W.S. Station to go on an excursion to Lake George. I bought tickets for Sara and myself and we waited until long past the time for the train when

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