music subsided on long drawn out tones uttered by voices - it had the “listening” quality of vast primeval waste lands. Here to me was the true value of the Delius touch. If only the motive were not like the Rigoletto quartet! - which has become so unutterably banal and common.
                                                                        April 19, 1938- Tues-
      AM. “Helped” Arthur with his garden back of the pavilion. We put in from rows of onions. There was a fresh breeze from the SW and intervals of bright sunlight. It was pleasant working in the ground - the contact renews one’s faith in things.
     PM. All of us to Buffalo, the “girls” to see “The Girl of the Golden West,” Arthur & I to see “Snow White” again.
                                                                      April 21, 1938, Thurs.
     PM. With the three youngest east on Clinton Rd to the woods beyond Four Rod (?) Road.
     An idyllic afternoon - the children blissfully happy in the woods, and all it contained. The “woods” covers a large, un-reclaimed tract, and contains two wide parallel depressions or vales, both swampy, and one cut by a clean shallow winding brook, with a hard dirt bottom. This captured the imagination of Arthur & Sally, who went along it with long sticks, splashing, and hitting at frogs. Catherine & I, more sedately wandered along looking for flowers.
     It was a mild warm day, with clear mellow sunshine - perfect spring weather. We rested and ate oranges in the shade of a group of hemlocks on the rise of ground between the two vales (christened by common consent - Paradise and