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1868
Sunday, April 5.

Palm Sunday.

Feeling miserable over that [[margin]] [[--lingly?]] written [[/margin]] letter from home  [[underline]]Snowing[[/underline]] hard when I got up.
Read all day. No visitors and I am glad of it. I tried to read the "History of the Girondists" par Lamartine but my poor head wandered to my mother ill at home and perhaps without any comfort whatever 
How long O God! how long!


1868
Monday, April 6.

Who is it that comes from [[Edim?]] with dyed garments from Bozra. he and P. read that lesson the Monday night after the Surrender of Lee. Memory cherished as fondly as ever. At Church in the morning after to Lee's. He thinks Major Delany a Conservative. I fear he is set against him in consequence of his refusal of the Senatorship of [[De?]] Ca.  In afternoon at [[underline]]"Niley's"[[/underline]] with Emily Tom her cousin.  In Eve at Church heard a most instructive sermon.  At Hayden's 

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