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May.  [[underline]]1867[[/underline]]
a beautiful little church made of boughs of trees with the bark on.  The cemetery surrounding it is used for the burial of the soldiers who are removed here.  On our return to [[strikethrough]]Richmond[[/strikethrough]] Petersburg, we walked through some of the principal streets and saw some fine residents among others that of Mr. Boling our southern friend who joined us the first day of our excursion.  Marks of shells were numerous in the lower part of the city some of the houses had not yet been repaired and were in a terribly battered condition.  Others had been neatly mended but still bore plain marks of hard usage.  We returned in the evening to Richmond.
23rd  This morning to my great regret we turned our faces homeward.  We came by boat from Aquia Creek.  I bade the party farewell at the south
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May 1867
[[?]] gate but the Patterson party came over in the evening to see me. So ends one of the pleasantest episodes of my life.
27  Had a pleasant call from Mr. Seward, a nephew of the Sec. & our consul to China.  A pleasant gentleman about thirty five years of age with manners entirely free from affectation of any kind.  Mr. Welling also came & Mr. Beaman.
29th  Mr. Seward came to play croquet.
June    Beautiful articles brought by Mr. Fox from Russia.  Unpacked in library & brought upstairs to be exhibited in the evening to the club.  Mr. Fox gave a lecture upon them.  Father declared to Mr. Fox that the milder climate of the Western part of Russia in comparason with the more eastern portions of the same latitude was due to the influence of the gulf stream.  A statement with which Mr. Fox did not agree saying that the Mts. of Sweden & Norway intercepted all effects from that
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