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  • Reconstruction Diary Meditations: My Fair Lady

    Reconstruction Diary Meditations: My Fair Lady

    Friday, August 31, 1866 Milton and I went to the Fair today; saw quite a number of very nice things, among them a knitting machine which knits stockings very completely, and a great deal of fancy work. I saw quite a number of friends whom I was glad to see. [I] heard that Wm Wales…

  • Reconstruction Diary Meditations: On Threshers and Literary Picnics

    Reconstruction Diary Meditations: On Threshers and Literary Picnics

    Saturday, August 25, 1866 The threshers finished at 9 o’clock and went to Clifford’s. Lizzie & I went to town this morn, she to take her music lesson. We did some shopping also [and] bought some new gaiters, dresses, etc. Samuel Gause and Mary came down to visit Alpheus and Ruth Emily. They found her…