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Apr. 27
[[underline]] Duse [[/underline]] in [[underline]] Camille [[/underline]] at the Globe Theater

A very noble actress. Extraordinarily [[/underline]] real [[underline]] acting. Not always [[/underline]] graceful [[underline]], but unconscious & real in feeling, to a degree to make one love her faults just as in real life. Her large hands and peculiar use of them for emotion. fine when she strokes the fur on her dressing gown & rubs it feebly against her cheek, & then draws the gown over her head & droops on the table.

How unlifelike people,(real people) seem, after a play like that or after reading a fine book.

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29 General Corse died. Hero of Allatoona.

Monday
Funeral of General Corse with military honors, at the New Old South. Very very impressive.

The leaves fall fast
The yellow Autumn leaves
Upon the path
The years fly past

I bow my head with shame

Transcription Notes:
John Corse, Union general in Civil War