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Thursday July 31" 1890. Last night was very warm with however a cool breeze from the S.W. which we did not get in front of the house. I awoke feeling dull and enervated. Today it is very hot with a strong wind from the S. The mercury shows 88 on our back piazza at noon. Jamie brought me a letter from Booth from Naragansett Pier. He says he is lacking in strength and energy and spends most of his time in the house reading and sleeping, chiefly the latter. He says he does not know when he will go to N.Y. but when he does I must come and dine with him at the club and we will talk over our affairs and that he will do whatever I wish him to. I have written him sending him a diagram of our place and a full statement of our indebtedness up to [[strikethrough]] Jul [[/strikethrough]] May 1890. The two mortgages 14.000.
Bal on a/c 2 312.50 = 16.312.50 asking him if he will allow Sam to assume the two mortgages and release the rest of the property and let the mortgages remain for the present at the same rate of interest - 4 pr ct. so that I can give Sam an authoritative answer. Van Ettan came again this morning and is surveying below the hill. I was not needed and as I felt unable to climb about in the heat I did not go. Jimmy brought a letter from Mary from Woods Hole to Sara, one from Wm. M. Hayes from Kingston to me ready to cooperate in any effort for free postal delivery and one from Eastman Johnson. He is so convinced that his wife and Ethel, never having had any camping experience, would wreck themselves and him the first chance, that he has not dared to propose it to them for fear they will be eager to go, as he would like to have them, if he thought it feasible. I have written to Mary to go as I intended to whether the Johnsons went or not. I have also written Royal Reed to tell him I want two guides and possibly more and that we expect to leave here Sept. 15 and that I want him to be on the look out, tell me what he has on hand so that I can know what to bring &c. I also wrote Hayes I would come to his office on Saturday about 9. It has been an extremely hot day with strong S wind all day. Van Ettan and his two men worked all day but have not finished. They left the transit here.

Friday August 1". 1890
Warm and fine day. We had a heavy thunder shower last night about 10 oclock. Today has been warm, but a most quiet and lovely day. I have been about over our land on the West of Chestnut St. and it seemed pleasant every where. Tom has spoken to me of buying a lot or a couple of lots and building a house and I went over with him and showed him the lots in Augusta St. abutting on Woolseys line which he said he always liked. I told him I would let him have two lots there for $800 with the proviso that I was to approve the style of house he built. He is to talk with Minnie who is away from home today. Agnes, Bowyers wife came today. Bowyer is to come up on Saturday for Sunday. Van Ettan and one of his men was here this forenoon for a short time.

Saturday 2" 
Warm. I went down town after breakfast and from there to Kingston where I had an interview with Wm. M. Hayes on the free postal delivery for this city. We are agreed upon the necessity for it and that it should be from one central office and concluded that the best and only way to get it is by petition. He wrote out a short form of petition and I am going to see several people who I think will help and advise them and secure their cooperation, if possible. The opposition to it is to me unaccountable and springs only from the most selfish motives. I stopped at the City Hall to look over the valuations on the tax list and find ours the same as last year. I had a letter from Weir from the L.I. coast and Sara one from Lucy delighted at the sale we have made.

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