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Martha Baldwin diary,page 29

Baldwin, Martha, 1840-1913

Baldwin Public Library

Baldwin, Martha, 1840-1913

Women Michigan Birmingham Biography

Birmingham (Mich.) History

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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] Thurs was spent our Thanksgiving I had a letter from Wash & am going there vacation. 30 Cold and hard lessons. Dec 1st Saturday, so hard at work. Now it is nine I have compositions and lessons to get. We thought to get settled upstairs but could not get our stove up. Patience, I am sleepy and do want to go to bed. Dec 2nd Went to church this morning early. Have been reading “Gold Foil.” Dec 4 Tuesday This evening Vanderhoff was to lecture. I did not want to go with the girls and their brothers or the girls and their beaux so went to go with Nellie H but she had a beaux so went to with Mollie D-----. It was so good His subject—poetry and poets