Jane Bigelow Diary, 1858-1859
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- Jane Bigelow Diary, 1858-1859
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- & spent a half hour there very pleasantly. It was the loveliest moonlight[sic] night and the drive home was delightful. Today rainy. I took the children & nurse with me & shopped for two hours.Gloves were my most expensive purchase. And as usual walked a mile along the Boulevards entertaining myself with shop windows. Mr & Mrs Cleveland called just as I returned then came the hairdresser who arranged my head to my entire satisfaction & we went at 6 to dine at [illegible] only the family & Mrs [illegible words] The former married Miss [illegible], homeliest of created beings, excepting her brother. [illegible] is a fright himself; conceited & [illegible] generally. Bought a trunk as large as my old one, but not so well made for $5.60 Christmas trees for sale all around the [illegible] . [illegible words] like ours last year only very much smaller. I thought of the one I was so happy & busy decorating last winter & how long after the holidays I kept it, how green & beautiful it was until almost spring. How fresh & green is my remembrance of it still
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