TitleMartha Baldwin diary,page 44 Date1860-12-25 SubjectBaldwin, Martha, 1840-1913 Description -mas is not so nice. The snow is falling so gently and softly, the [?] are [?] in all ways and as... View Details
TitleMartha Baldwin diary,page 45 Date1860-12-30 SubjectBaldwin, Martha, 1840-1913 Description To day have been writing and reading. Miss McC---- had a friend here to tea. They have now gone ... View Details
TitleMartha Baldwin diary,page 46 Date1861-01-01 SubjectBaldwin, Martha, 1840-1913 Description Tuesday. New years day, 1861. A beautiful day, the sleighing is fine, and it is not severely col... View Details
TitleMartha Baldwin diary,page 47 Date1861-01-05 SubjectBaldwin, Martha, 1840-1913 Description Jan 5th Very busy, doing a little of everything. O how I wish next week and examination over. Ly... View Details
TitleMartha Baldwin diary,page 48 Date1861-01-08 SubjectBaldwin, Martha, 1840-1913 Description 8th Tuesday A lecture, went down with Lydia & [?] A letter from Mother & she is coming over fro... View Details
TitleMartha Baldwin diary,page 49 Date1861-01-09 SubjectBaldwin, Martha, 1840-1913 Description 9th O Dear study study study, up at night & up in the morning.
10th No letter & I know mother w... View Details
TitleMartha Baldwin diary,page 50 Date1861-01-11 SubjectBaldwin, Martha, 1840-1913 Description That if instead of boasting our liberty we would strive to found institutions equaling those of Ge... View Details
TitleMartha Baldwin diary,page 51 Date1861-01-12 SubjectBaldwin, Martha, 1840-1913 Description 12 Went down to [?] Cohills to read Latin and went to the cars, not expecting to see mother at all... View Details
TitleMartha Baldwin diary,page 52 Date1861-01-15 SubjectBaldwin, Martha, 1840-1913 Description It was splendid, no – good.
Had the honor of going down with Dick and Lucie, and of going... View Details
TitleMartha Baldwin diary,page 64 Date1861-02-16 SubjectBaldwin, Martha, 1840-1913 Description 16th Busy ironing sewing working & every thing. [?] Jewel a friend of [?] McC_______ has been her... View Details
TitleMartha Baldwin diary,page 62 Date1861-02-08 SubjectBaldwin, Martha, 1840-1913 Description heavenly beauty.
After the fall, she has fallen at his feet while the utmost horror is on her ... View Details
TitleMartha Baldwin diary,page 54 Date1861-01-23 SubjectBaldwin, Martha, 1840-1913 Description For the evenings entertainment the music was good but too much with it.
The Dales are all very p... View Details
TitleMartha Baldwin diary,page 55 Date1861-01-26 SubjectBaldwin, Martha, 1840-1913 Description all the morning. Mother is cleaning a dress, Sarah and Lola at work, and the children raising [?]... View Details
TitleMartha Baldwin diary,page 56 Date1861-01-28 SubjectBaldwin, Martha, 1840-1913 Description 28th Monday. I don’t know whether I should stay or not I hate to go till I have to, and I ... View Details
TitleMartha Baldwin diary,page 57 Date1861-01-29 SubjectBaldwin, Martha, 1840-1913 Description were at home at eleven.
Cold. [?] is home, we’ve been talking politics.
31st Thursday.... View Details
TitleMartha Baldwin diary,page 58 Date1861-02-01 SubjectBaldwin, Martha, 1840-1913 Description great train. They left us [?] & we found ourselves at home at one.
I do so hate to have Sophia ... View Details
TitleMartha Baldwin diary,page 59 Date1861-02-03 SubjectBaldwin, Martha, 1840-1913 Description the stove. Will we ever all meet again! and when!
I have been reading Timothy [?] letters.
Th... View Details
TitleMartha Baldwin diary,page 60 Date1861-02-04 SubjectBaldwin, Martha, 1840-1913 Description hard but am not very well satisfied. I’m going down to study with Lucy in [?]
Our house... View Details
TitleMartha Baldwin diary,page 61 Date1861-02-08 SubjectBaldwin, Martha, 1840-1913 Description 9th Such a days work. Up at five & washed till time to go down there and read compos... View Details
TitleMartha Baldwin diary,page 63 Date1861-02-10 SubjectBaldwin, Martha, 1840-1913 Description 16th Our sleighing is all going now. Down to church, [?] McC_____ people are here, I down stairs... View Details
TitleMartha Baldwin diary,page 53 Date1861-01-18 SubjectBaldwin, Martha, 1840-1913 Description 18th Friday It does seem so good not to have to study. Mother is finishing my dress I have been ... View Details
TitleMartha Baldwin diary,page 65 Date1861-02-17 SubjectBaldwin, Martha, 1840-1913 Description Ohio to school. I do so hate to be the only lady in the class and then I shan’t go through... View Details
TitleMartha Baldwin diary,page 66 Date1861-02-20 SubjectBaldwin, Martha, 1840-1913 Description 20th Wednesday. Just the same as ever.
21st A very good day. Tired and sleepy.
22nd Washington... View Details
TitleMartha Baldwin diary,page 67 Date1861-02-23 SubjectBaldwin, Martha, 1840-1913 Description 23rd Saturday and a busy one too. To night Dick came for me to go to the reading circle.
Had a ... View Details
TitleMartha Baldwin diary,page 68 Date1861-02-24 SubjectBaldwin, Martha, 1840-1913 Description The pale ghost of the setting moon
Shall hide beyond yon rocky spines/
And the young archer Mo... View Details
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