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Wednesday June 9th 1875 This has been a damp rainy day. all of us well. Mattie Faulds spent the morning with Belle, her baby has a bad choking cough. but dont seem sick. note left margin: Nursery + we commenced to day to take up Carpet and to paint our Nursery to give it up to Eva,s twins. they keep well and strong. Mrs Nelson came to see me. we still receive letters of Sympathy from our friends. Oh! it seems to me to grow worse, my heart is so faint and sick, and I feel the sad loss of my dear Eva more and more. Thursday June 10th 1875 This has been a beautiful day. all of us well. Mattie & Hunt gone to see Belle, Mrs Hilton and Mr Wm Angell, here to day. fixing up the Nursery with new Carpet Curtains & paint. for the twin babies, Belle & Mother Kearney came up to see the babies Mrs Thompson came also to see the children, so did Mrs Luther Shreve, after lunch Mattie Faulds and Hunt with Ada went out to get some air, George Meeker had his Nose broken to day by a Base ball, Mr Angell came up to Supper, Friday June 11th 1875 To day has been sultry and windy, and looks like rain, all of us well, and babies doing well if I could only feel happy as I have done for so many years. I should be so glad, it seems to me, that I would never murmur again at anything if I only had my Eva by my side, how sad, how stark, how, dreary everything seems. and yet I must not complain, but pray for strength I feel so ill in my heart. I have sent Ada [note left margin: Chains Pullman]] to drive with my Hunt and Mattie Faulds to get the air, Mr Angell came up to supper. he talks of going out of the City for a few days. Mrs G.M. Pullman sent the twin Angell beautiful chains & lockets. Mrs Henry King came to inquire after the babies & myself. I went up stairs to night for the first time to see the babies since their birth, my heart has been too full to go up before. Mr & Mrs Kearney and baby came up to see us to day.