Jane Bigelow Diary, 1858-1859
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- Jane Bigelow Diary, 1858-1859
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going to bed & very early this morning they were made happy enjoying the contents.
Plenty of cheap toys along the streets yesterday but candies & cakes all very high & not com-
parable to ours. No [illegible words] to eat less than [illegible words]; very delicious [illegible] but nothing for less money. Thursday night such a pleasant dream. I feel so grateful for it & it has made me happier than any thing else since I left home. That evening we drove out to [illegible]. Nobody there but a Mrs Crouch. Old maidish, scraggy; full of pretension & affectation of all sorts. a regular [illegible] this [illegible]. Mrs G is really very sweet & agreeable. Fearfully scraggy & tall like all Boston women.
Mr & Mrs & Miss [illegible] came Wednesday afternoon to see us; Miss D & Josey Henderson; in a great excitement regarding [illegible words] about her [illegible] circulated by [illegible words] & her spiritual adviser Mrs Lawson; she knew these rumors had reached us & wanted to contradict them.
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