Otto Klotz Diary - July 15, 1887 (Vol 10)
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Title
Otto Klotz Diary - July 15, 1887 (Vol 10)
Creator
Klotz, Otto, 1852-1923.
Source
Part of R6645-0-4-E (LAC)
Publisher
Stakeholders Project
Date
1887-07-15
Contributor
University of Ottawa Library
Faculty of Arts
Rights
CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
Format
Diary entry
Type
Text
Identifier
Klotz_Vol10_1887_07_15
Scripto
Transcription
fine
eve rain
I am sure that none of my preceding nine volumes were ushered into existence with a
more pleasant beginning than this one for with this morning’s steamer Marie + Max
arrived. Since Sunday I had not walked any distance, but this morning went to the pier
to meet them, having been preceeded by Mrs. Pattinson + Mrs. Bishop who were on
same errand.
My work has mostly been of such a nature that it was im-possible to have Marie with
me, besides the expense of going several thousand miles to meet me, but now all the
circumstances were favorable and I embraced them (her too).
The trip to Lake Superior was a standing wish of hers and now it is being fulfilled. After
we were comfortably seated in our rooms how delighted she was to learn that I would
accompany her home as I will have to proceed to Ottawa the first week in August to
attend the examination for Dominion Land Surveyors as one of the examiners -- being
the first time since my appointment.
Marie + Max both enjoy the cool air here after the sweltering heat they have had at
home. Not being quite well yet we remained at the hotel all day – in our room or on the
verandah viewing the beautiful sheet of the water before us, from which [____] grim
looking Thunder Cape, opposite to it the rocky citadel of [Pe] Island, and to the
Southeast Mt. McKay. On the eastern horizon a low lying smoke cloud would tell us of
an approaching steamer; tugs were going and coming, canoes and boats were rocking
+ gliding over the water with cheery occupants.
How absorbed one can sit and view this water scene and still think of nothing [______].
We sat there truly [“dulee far mieuke”] and enjoyed it. Max soon made the acquaintance
of some boys in the hotel and was off fishing + boating, but in the evening when he went
off with a [___ all] boy in a boat and rowed to the lighthouse [about a mile] we were very
anxious, as we watched them. They remained such a long time at the lighthouse and it
was growing dark + (32) besides a storm was approaching, so that Marie was very
restless, but I could do nothing. They returned before the rain.
eve rain
I am sure that none of my preceding nine volumes were ushered into existence with a
more pleasant beginning than this one for with this morning’s steamer Marie + Max
arrived. Since Sunday I had not walked any distance, but this morning went to the pier
to meet them, having been preceeded by Mrs. Pattinson + Mrs. Bishop who were on
same errand.
My work has mostly been of such a nature that it was im-possible to have Marie with
me, besides the expense of going several thousand miles to meet me, but now all the
circumstances were favorable and I embraced them (her too).
The trip to Lake Superior was a standing wish of hers and now it is being fulfilled. After
we were comfortably seated in our rooms how delighted she was to learn that I would
accompany her home as I will have to proceed to Ottawa the first week in August to
attend the examination for Dominion Land Surveyors as one of the examiners -- being
the first time since my appointment.
Marie + Max both enjoy the cool air here after the sweltering heat they have had at
home. Not being quite well yet we remained at the hotel all day – in our room or on the
verandah viewing the beautiful sheet of the water before us, from which [____] grim
looking Thunder Cape, opposite to it the rocky citadel of [Pe] Island, and to the
Southeast Mt. McKay. On the eastern horizon a low lying smoke cloud would tell us of
an approaching steamer; tugs were going and coming, canoes and boats were rocking
+ gliding over the water with cheery occupants.
How absorbed one can sit and view this water scene and still think of nothing [______].
We sat there truly [“dulee far mieuke”] and enjoyed it. Max soon made the acquaintance
of some boys in the hotel and was off fishing + boating, but in the evening when he went
off with a [___ all] boy in a boat and rowed to the lighthouse [about a mile] we were very
anxious, as we watched them. They remained such a long time at the lighthouse and it
was growing dark + (32) besides a storm was approaching, so that Marie was very
restless, but I could do nothing. They returned before the rain.
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Klotz, Otto, 1852-1923., “Otto Klotz Diary - July 15, 1887 (Vol 10),” stakeholders, accessed September 18, 2024, http://omeka.uottawa.ca/stakeholders/items/show/426.