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Saturday - very bright and pleasant but the snow lay smoooth and
white on the ground I was very much troubled with [?]
and should have accompanied Carolina and Sarah to Brooklyn
They went in the morning in a stage-sleigh
I spent the day pleasantly at home in my usual duties
In the afternoon Mary Reeve called early and we had
a pleasant chat She brought the daguerreotypes of her
cousin Mr Drawton for my inspection There is a very
fine young man about twenty-two and very handsome
so at least says his partial cousin Mary and so I
should judge from his picture He is from Chicago
and is to return next week Mary says he has become
quite interested in me as she has had so much to say
to him about me and wants to see me but as he is in
New York and she does not know when she shall see
him again or what day he will leave she couldmake
no arrangement to that effect Mary had a budget of secrets
to tell me but in the midst of it Elizabeth Cullbert called
and Mary left soon after I called on Sarah Olmstead
found her quite sick stopped a while and called on Ellen
Dickinson During my absence Mrs Tuttle called at our house
and informed Harriet that it has been discovered that Mr
Branch had two wives before he married Maggie Schenck
from both of whom he has been divorced and both are
yet living This is all she told us and she seemed surprised
that we had not heard of it before It were useless to say
how distressed we felt at this intelligence

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