TitleMartha Baldwin diary,page 19 Date1858-05-01 SubjectBaldwin, Martha, 1840-1913 Description May 1. Cold and windy. My Father went down to the village this afternoon. I went with him and c... View Details
TitleMartha Baldwin diary,page 20 Date1858-05-03 SubjectBaldwin, Martha, 1840-1913 Description May 3. At home and hard at work. This evening have been reading to Father, A Story of Revolution... View Details
TitleMartha Baldwin diary,page 21 Date1858-05-05 SubjectBaldwin, Martha, 1840-1913 Description talk over familiar topics and discuss possibilities and probabilities, also. This afternoon my Mo... View Details
TitleMartha Baldwin diary,page 22 Date1858-05-07 SubjectBaldwin, Martha, 1840-1913 Description the Academy bell was ringing. How natural in sounds. Clara is the same as ever, so good and pret... View Details
TitleMartha Baldwin diary,page 23 Date1858-05-08 SubjectBaldwin, Martha, 1840-1913 Description some to night but am tired. Tis Saturday night once more, the end of another busy week and we are... View Details
TitleMartha Baldwin diary,page 24 Date1858-05-13 SubjectBaldwin, Martha, 1840-1913 Description couraged part of the time because Mother would not let me take more charge of the work. Father ha... View Details
TitleMartha Baldwin diary,page 25 Date1858-05-16 SubjectBaldwin, Martha, 1840-1913 Description May 16. Oh how cold! Have been to sabbath school. Reading ______ and listening to _______.
Ma... View Details
TitleMartha Baldwin diary,page 26 Date1858-05-24 SubjectBaldwin, Martha, 1840-1913 Description May 24. Rainy. I went up to Gus this afternoon and had a good visit.
May 25. It has rained ev... View Details
TitleMartha Baldwin diary,page 27 Date1858-05-28 SubjectBaldwin, Martha, 1840-1913 Description May 28. The wind blows cold and dreary and I have studied a little, while all the rest are losing... View Details
TitleMartha Baldwin diary,page 28 Date1858-05-29 SubjectBaldwin, Martha, 1840-1913 Description May 30. Yesterday was a dull rainy day but this morning was not quite as bad, and I went to the f... View Details
TitleMartha Baldwin diary,page 29 Date1858-05-31 SubjectBaldwin, Martha, 1840-1913 Description for him to have a wife. I do think it is queer the Birmingham folks don’t come out to see ... View Details
TitleMartha Baldwin diary,page 30 Date1858-06-02 SubjectBaldwin, Martha, 1840-1913 Description old lady, taking her baby and looking so _______.
June 3. I am tired tonight and can’t s... View Details
TitleMartha Baldwin diary,page 31 Date1858-06-08 SubjectBaldwin, Martha, 1840-1913 Description June 5. This afternoon Gus and I walked down to Mr. Posts where we by special invitation had been... View Details
TitleMartha Baldwin diary,page 32 Date1858-06-09 SubjectBaldwin, Martha, 1840-1913 Description now. The trees and shrubs are not pruned and everything looks deserted. How I wish we had never ... View Details
TitleMartha Baldwin diary,page 33 Date1858-06-09 SubjectBaldwin, Martha, 1840-1913 Description The rain has been falling in perfect torrents. I have been cross and unpleasant. Would that I ha... View Details
TitleMartha Baldwin diary,page 34 Date1858-06-09 SubjectBaldwin, Martha, 1840-1913 Description But ties as it has always been. I am fitted only to, or rather she wants me to let her do it for ... View Details
TitleMartha Baldwin diary,page 35 Date1858-06-10 SubjectBaldwin, Martha, 1840-1913 Description June 10. This afternoon Mother and I went to Baxters(?) to visit. Elija is as funny as ever.
J... View Details
TitleMartha Baldwin diary,page 36 Date1858-06-15 SubjectBaldwin, Martha, 1840-1913 Description June 15. This afternoon Gus and I went up to Frank Opdykes. Unexpectedly we there met Eliza, Sar... View Details
TitleMartha Baldwin diary,page 37 Date1858-06-18 SubjectBaldwin, Martha, 1840-1913 Description June 18. At home all day, till just at night down to the village.
June 19. At home. Never sin... View Details
TitleMartha Baldwin diary,page 38 Date1858-06-19 SubjectBaldwin, Martha, 1840-1913 Description have we all met and probably never shall.
June 20. To night Father took me down to church at fi... View Details
TitleMartha Baldwin diary,page 39 Date1858-06-21 SubjectBaldwin, Martha, 1840-1913 Description perfectly awful. To night I went down to Mr. ______ to meet my Father. Had a pleasant chat with ... View Details
TitleMartha Baldwin diary,page 40 Date1858-06-25 SubjectBaldwin, Martha, 1840-1913 Description but it is thought she will recover. Also saw Mabel(?) Holling(?), ________, Jane and all the folk... View Details
TitleMartha Baldwin diary,page 41 Date1858-06-27 SubjectBaldwin, Martha, 1840-1913 Description June 27. My chosen favorite month of time is passing and my flowers are parching. It was too war... View Details
TitleMartha Baldwin diary,page 42 Date1858-06-30 SubjectBaldwin, Martha, 1840-1913 Description Called on Lottie ________. Met Miss Waldron, Miss Comstock and Miss Burr at Mrs. Goodsels(?). We... View Details
TitleMartha Baldwin diary,page 43 Date1858-06-31 SubjectBaldwin, Martha, 1840-1913 Description very pleasant visit.
July 2. At home. Em has been here. Down to the office on horseback.
Ju... View Details
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