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Tuesday. Pleasant. Sewed in the morning. Kate Hudson and Henry with Miss G. Griffin took teawith us. George called but pleading an engagement left just before tea. They all left about eight o'clock, mostly on Henry's acco[rd.] Mr and Mrs Hudson called soon after. Mr Hudson greeted us all with a kiss. He has altered very much and wears a beard three or four inches long. I do not think I should have known him. Mother and Father were not at home, they were visiting Albert and Mary Emma. Wednesday. Pleasant but very cold. Early in the afternoon [Hattie] and I called on Miss M. Smith and the Havers. Harriet then left me to call on Mrs Skinner, and I crossed the Houston street ferry and called on Mrs Evans in [Lours] (saw H. passing as I stood in the ferry house). Staid some time Mrs Evans, who is a cousin of Ellen Leager and then proceeded to the house of Miss Harriet Thompson in Rutgers Place. Harriet and Caroline had arrived just before me. We passed the remainder of the afternoon and evening very pleasantly. Five theological students and another gentleman joined us after tea. In such company who could but enjoy themselves. Piety and intellectual attainments are after all the things most to be desired in a companion. Conversation elevated and refined I find that I can appreciate much more highly than a [pretty] face, a fashionable address and a tongue and mind constantly employed on trifles. We left about half past ten. Mr Dane accompanied me to the ferry.
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Thursday, Feb 19th. Cold. Sewed. Ellen Dickinson called. Attended Lyceum in the evening. The celebrated Ralph Waldo Emerson lectured on "Wealth". It was quite interesting but not so much so as I had been led to expect. Friday. Pleasant. In the afternoon made a long call on Mrs. Hearns. Returned just in time to see Mr. Henry Hudson mounting our steps as I approached. He looked and evidently felt much better than when I saw him last. We spoke much of Religion and it was pleasant to hear him. I wish that more of my young friends thought, and spoke more on this important subject. Henry wore around his neck a trippet that I had given him before he went to Cal. in one end of which I slipped a card with my name and some verses written on it. This he did not find till last March - more than two years after. What vast importance time can impart to trifles. A scrap of paper, a verse, a lock of hair which with its owner has sailed round "the Horn", travelled in distant lands, and crossed "the Isthmus" on a homeward journey appears quite a wonderful affair when handled again after a lapse of three years. How many little things we recalled and talked over with renewed interest, valued only as pleasant reminiscences of this happy past! Henry left just before tea. Church prayer meeting at our house in the **
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Saturday Feb 21st. Busy at home. Pleasant in the morning but snowed in the afternoon. Wrote in my journal in the evening. Sunda. The snow lay about four inches in depth on the ground and was very sloppy owing to the weather which was wild. By afternoon the influence of the sun had changed it to water, none of the clearest however. I attended church all day. Heard an excellent sermon in the morning by the Rev. Mr. Atwater on the parable of the "Sower and the Seed." Father preached in the P.M. Attended L. School as usual. Evening in reading. Cornelius birthday fourteenth, I can remember fourteen years ago today quite distinctly. Monday. Warm and very pleasant. Spent it at home in my usual duties. Some parade was made in honor of Washington's birthday. Mr. Taylor Warner called in the morning to request Father to attend the funeral of his youngest child a daughter about three weeks old. My feelings towards my former Sunday School teacher have lately been of no pleasant nature but now how could I but pity and forgive. Helen Stearns called. Evening in writing. Tuesday. Cloudy and damp. Mother and Harriet attended the funeral of Mr. T.C. Warner's baby. Father officiated. I should have gone also but the rain prevented. About four P.M. I called on Katie Hudson and saw all the family. Made quite a long and pleasant call. George accompanied me home. Evening in reading and writing.
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Wednesday. Delightful weather. Balmy Spring seems to have stolen upon us unawares. The day was quite too pleasant to spend within doors, so soon after breakfast I called on Ellen Dickinson, and Ellen Waterman. Also went into Grand street, shopping. Returned and spent the remainder of the morning, and the early part of the afternoon sewing. Henry Hudson then came in and staid till dusk. Elizabeth Culbert and Ellen Dickinson called. Mr Murphy took tea with us and spent the evening with Hattie. Thursday. Very pleasant. Aunt Graves spent the day with us. I spent most of the afternoon at Mrs Stearns'. Carrie Heath called at our house. In the evening when getting ready to attend Lyceum, expecting to go as usual with Natty. I was agreeably surprised when Mr Henry H presented himself to accompany me thither. It is the first time that he has been out in the evening since his illness, and he is still quite weak, and sometimes noticed it however had he not mentioned it himself when we were returning. It was a lovely moonlight evening and recalled fordibly to my mind the last evening before his departure for Cal. It was just such a night as this and as we walked together, and thought how long it would be before we could walk thus again; we looked upwards to the serene heavens, and tried to talk hopefully of the future. It was three years ago, and we are different now; both have
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grown older and wiser, yet we lo,oked upward to-night also and smiled and we thought of three years ago. It was a pleasant walk we took to-night, and at the Lyceum I thought many glances were directed to the returned Californian. Dr. E. S Porter delivered a very fine lecture on the "Perversions of Science ", to which I gave very good attention as Huery observed. in fact I was very much pleased with it, and consider it as one of the best lectures I have heard this winter. [ ] and Ellen accompanied [ ] and [ ], and on our return all came in. [ ] did not stay long as it is necessary for him to keep early hours.
Friday, February 27th Weather pleasant. [ ] in the morning In the afternoon called on Mr. Lockwood , the [ ] superintendent and distributed [ ], then called on [ ] strong Mrs. Hearns, and returned very much fatigued, yet in the evening attended a church Prayer meeting at Mr. [ ]. My little [ ] Emma Wilde is one of the prettiest babies I ever saw. She was in her mother's arms when we came in , but slept quietly in her cradle while the services went on. We all walked home in company with Mr. & Mrs. Hudson
Saturday It had snowed all night and it had snowed all day. Snow, snow, snow! Pretty as it is I am getting tired of it but Spring is almost here and we shall soon see the last of snow, which I shall bid goodbye without much [ ]
(Left margin) Feb 29th Received a good long letter from Mary Reeve mailed Tuesday I have waited long for it but it was joyfully received .