Travel Diaries and Journals

Friday.. Very cold but clear.. Commenced making up my new dress. Miss Mary Warner, Mrs Fitch, and Mary Reeve called, P.M. Wrote to William Gonsalves? in the evening.

Saturday.. Pleasant. Spent the day busily and pleasantly at home. Ellen Dickinson called in the morning. Mr Murphy unexpectedly arrived from New Haven in the afternoon much to Harriet's surprise and delight.

Sunday.. Pleasant. Attended our church all day. Father preached in the morning and Mr Picard in the afternoon. Spent the evening in pleasant and I trust profitable reading.

Monday.. Cloudy. Occupied the morning with my needle. Early in the afternoon I called on Mary Reeve and also on Mrs Tucker, an intimate friend of Mrs Leager She has just received a letter from Mrs Leager, in which one had been inclosed to me by Ellen, but for some reason, not explained, had been taken out. She is a very pleasant and talkative woman, and entertained me with a long account of what Mrs Leager had written. She also offered to enclose a letter from me in her own letters which she sends tomorrow. Kate Hudson made a long call soon after my return. In the evening wrote to Ellen Seager, wrote in my journal, and read the newspapers.

Tuesday. Clear, but very cold. Sewed all day without interruption. Mrs Beecher called about dusk. Read in the evening Folks say that this is the coldest day we have had in [three?] years.

Friday December 26th Very cold. Busy in sewing. [?] Dickinson called in the afternoon. Mary Willet and Antoinette Shepard also made a long call. In the morning Mrs Evans Ellen Seager's cousin from New York called with a letter from Ellen to me. She had been at much trouble in finding me having first sent over a servant who being unsuccessful, returned and she then came over with it herself. She seems a very pleasant lady I have never seen her before. Ellen's letter was eight pages long, describing the voyage, her reception in England [?] with her mother she is now residing near Woolwich at her uncle's. They were [27?] days on the ocean during which time a very pleasing young gentleman on board fell in love with Ellen, and made her an offer of his hand, but she had left her heart in America, and he [sued?] in vain. She is homesick, and wants to see me and somebody [somebody is underscored] else very badly. Brother Jonathan quite [?] John Bull in her eyes, and she is so discontented that I think she will return with her mother as soon as possible.

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