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[[underline]] Nov. [[/underline]]  [[underline]] 1867 [[/underline]]
"  said his address was interesting but not remarkable.  We heard him in the evening in our own church.  Long before the usual hour for service the building was thronged  We could with difficulty obtain seats.  A more thrilling sermon I never listened to.  He took for his theme the simple but sublime plan of Salvation. its completeness & fullness & held his listeners entranced to the end.  Saw Dr. Climer after church also the Chief Justice & his daughter who has just returned from Europe both were delighted with the sermon.
25th  Went to hear Dr. Hall again.  His sermon not so fine as that of last evening.  Dr. Climer there.  Saw Sec. Browning & daughter after lecture.
27th  Gave Henry a French lesson.  Read Buchanan
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Nov.   [[underline]] 1867 [[/underline]]
Reed's poem The Wagoner of the Aleganies.  Stewart Patterson here.
27th  Dr. [[Climer?]] here in the morning read aloud to Father all this eve.
29th  Thanksgiving Day dined with Prof & Mrs. Baird. Speaking of Dickens Mrs. B. told us she had passed a day with him & was very anxious to hear him lecture.  Father told us a somewhat amusing anecdote about himself said that when engaged in the Albany Academy he was living in Schen. but it was necessary to be in Albany every morning at nine o'clock.  One morning the coach failed to call for him & when he went to the office it was gone before sensing the ugency of the case to the coachman he harnessed up a second vehicle & driving with great rapidity he soon overtook the coach.  the driver was hailed & stopped & [[?]] got out of his own coach with the other [[?]]
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