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Title
Martha Baldwin diary,page 82
Creator
Baldwin, Martha, 1840-1913

Institution
Baldwin Public Library

Subject
Baldwin, Martha, 1840-1913

Subject
Women Michigan Birmingham Biography

Subject
Birmingham (Mich.) History

Item Number
EC01d204

Relation
Part of Martha Baldwin's Diary, 1859-1860

Type
text, image

Format
tiff

Description
The following is a transcription of Martha Baldwin's diary, 1859-1860. Question marks inclosed in parentheses represent words in the original diary that were illegible. Elipses are used to indicate larger portions of the text found to be illegible.

Ben Wilbur to all stand there by the door and let us girls go paking [sic] off alone and Clara too who had so far to go. She did not dare to go so she came with me. If they improve in this way by the time they leave college they will not know that there is such a thing as (?). To night we went to singing school. Mr. L called Gus and Em Davis out in a quartette which seemed quite like old times. Gus stayed with me. Jane is here. 30th To day I went home with Gus Hoyt and James came up and stopped for me intending to take Em Davis and I up. But Emily could not go. Calvin called.


Martha Baldwin diary,page 82

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