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Home Sunday June 30th 73 P.M.
The Thursday following my last writing I went up to the city and remaining over night at Franks. I spent the evening calling upon my friend Fannie it being the day of the jubilee or festival given Gyce[?] for enterprising Hotels and Rail Road companies to advertise their custelertion[?] not finding my friend in I met Young Mll Ultman and such we started for a walk but meeting her we all returned to the house once spent a unpleasant evening- on Saturday I came up again and remained over Sunday with Frank. he is charmingly situated and with his wife seems to be very happy they are frequently out at Dinner and there for some uneasiness about their selon[?] view of which they have quite a good deal and now as Mr Kerfoot  anticipates taking his family all to Europe the Early part of next month -Nanni is particularly anxious to secure [?] she another family before they go. On Sunday everything [?] recollections of the days before the fire when we are all so charmingly situated in the old house by the lake, with a successful business and everything I make of happy but perhaps we did not sufficiently appreciate our good fortune and it was a divine will that we should be deprived of it for a while to teach us its true value. In church Dr Locke came into the [?] with that same businesslike air and in his quick resolute manner made through the service his sermon bore the old flowery character and he closed by giving the people one of his laconic and pointed lectures on giving their money to some object