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Martha Baldwin diary,page 72

Baldwin, Martha, 1840-1913

Baldwin Public Library

Baldwin, Martha, 1840-1913

Women Michigan Birmingham Biography

Birmingham (Mich.) History

EC01b072

Part of Martha Baldwin's Diary, 1860-1863

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Some sections of the original diary are illegible, and these are noted in the transcription. A bracketed question mark [?] represents one illegible word. Places where whole sentences (or considerable portions thereof) were found to be illegible are noted with a bracketed ellipsis […]. Whole paragraphs found to be illegible have been noted in the following manner: [P] but of the divided ones rather. He is taken the rule over a land his party been ruined, and he is placed upon the [?] of power, but to view the desolation he has caused. O may all be get [sic] well, and our dear land saved. Another [?]. Failed in Latin recited in Rhetoric [?] Did not go into the [?] Section class, but had a talk with the Proff and he thinks I [?] better go in, for a couple of weeks. All the girls gone to church, save Amy & I. 5th Went to the social, and had a very good time, but haven’t time to [?] [P]