June 28, 1883, Thursday

Cloudy, hard rain.  Went to Orange Grove.  Directed one of the old boilers to be repaired for Riverton.  Wrote Beckner at Armant to drop me a postcard every day or two to let me know if they had more rain.
Wrote Scribner & Walford, books had at last come safely to hand.  Wrote Dodd, Mead & Co. to same effect.