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Father discovered last night  In the absence of the rest of the party Mother & I have been entertained by a visit from Mr. & Mrs. Peale & Alfred Woodhul.  The former greatly admired the fern baskets Mother's addition to the conservatory and the shells of plant she arranged as well as the grottoes of rocks & moss Carry & I made to catch the water from the hanging basket.  The plants are growing well and the conservatory really looks very prettily.  I have been in bed all day with headache so have not been able to work on Father's bust.
5th  Thursday.  Busy all day at Father's bust.  Mrs. Dale & daughter left this morning.  Father & Carry went to call on Lady Amberly.  She is the daughter of Lord Stanley.  They found her very agreeable.  She has married a widower with a small child of two years old.  She told Carry she
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was very anxious to get back to England in order to see the little boy and showed her a picture of him asleep.  Carry told her we had an acquaintance of hers with us.  "Mrs. Dale, Oh [[?]]  She tiresome said she.  "She is strong minded" said Cary.  "Oh I don't object to her principles but to her voice," said Lady A.  Mrs. Delafield & Mary Sorring were calling upon her also.  She was very much pleased with Father & said she had enjoyed her visit at the Smithsonian very much.  She wants to go to the church of the colored people on Sunday and Father promised to let her know when it was to be found.  We shall have to call up all our little negro boys and ask them where they go to church said Miss Sorring for your benefit Lady Amberly.  She goes to Richmond on Monday.  We were invited to meet them at Adm.Shubrick's last evening & wanted to invite them here ^[[on Sat.]] but Father has an
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