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Apr. 21 Deposited check from James T. Gardiner for 

 report on Niagara to State Survey Commission. 



Jul. i Bill to Montauk Association for advice as to dis- 

 position of cottages in summer colony at Montauk. 



Sep. 27 Advice on the forest treatment of Phillips estate at 

 Beverly, Mass. 



I 8 8 I - Residence mainly in Brookline. 



1882 : 



Winter 



1882: Reports printed relating to U. S. Capitol at Wash- 

 ington, Albany State Capitol, and Belle Isle Park, 

 Detroit. 



F e b ' y Published : Spoils of the Park with a few leaves 

 from the deep laden note book of "a wholly un- 

 practical man, " a reminiscent account of political 

 interference in the management of Central Park. 

 Just after this, he wrote to a friend; "You can 

 have no idea what a drag life had been to me for 

 three years or more. I did not appreciate it myself 

 until I began last summer to get better. The 

 turning point appears to have been an abandon- 

 ment of New York. ... I have done much hard 

 and steady work. The pamphlet of which you 

 speak was mostly written after midnight and did 

 not prevent me from getting regularly five or six 

 hours refreshing sleep. I enjoy this suburban;-/ 

 country beyond expression and in fact, the older I 

 grow, find my capacity for enjoyment increasing. 

 We have had great trials and agitations in the last 

 year but the result of the whole has been with all 

 tranquillizing. I am to turn sixty with two grand- 



sons." 



