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been & amused us & himself by making us play the game of 20 questions to find out. Two French men came ^[[with letters of introduction]] one of them the great grandson of the inventor of the balloon.
3rd Friday. three French gentlemen Mr. Fox & Mr Besel came to play croquet Mr. Foote & Mr. Taylor to see father in the evening. Mr. F. said his wife & invented a paper making machine wh. would probably be very profitable as a pecuniary speculation  Father was curious to know what led her thoughts in that direction & said he must "get under her bonnet" She is at present trying to make diamonds. Mr. F. promised me a set if she should be successful.
4th Col. Yates here in the evening. Poor old Count Gerouski is dead. He breathed his last at Mrs. Eames. He was a Pole but had lived in this the country of his adoption for a number of years. His shrewd remarks ^[[upon political ^[[& other]] matters]] have been a source of great amusement to Father. The last time we saw him was at a reading given by Mrs. [[end page]]
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Howe at Mrs. Johnson's.
7th  Yesterday went to church & Sunday School. Had the pleasure of seeing Dr. & Mrs. Hodge from Princeton. Read "Nature & the Supernatural" to Father in the evening. Jack Gillis  Dr. Tryon & the Kennedy's here this afternoon. Meeting of the doctors of the ^[[city who discussed nothing but the cholera.]]  
8th A visit from Miss DeLeon. She was in Richmond during the war & gave us an interesting account of her experiance among other things told us she had kept an account of marketing expenses for the family as a curiosity. Turkeys were sold at $150 butter $50 per pound and other things in like proportion.
9th  Miss DeLeon stayed with us last night and entertained us during the eve. with a description of her travels abroad and especially her visit to Egypt where her brother was consul. Has gone to attend a lecture given by her brother for the benefit of the sufferers of the South. Dr. Torrey arrived this evening.
10th  The discussions in congress yesterday seemed mostly to have
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