Thursday Dec 21st 1871 - Fine -
mild wierd - Poultney just
arrived for a fortnight’s holy day
Beautiful letter from George
Griswold - yesterday in rain
& mud walked to town & back
Mrs. Rose came in the evening
& her husband also came
later - wrote cousin Mary T -
Friday Dec 22d As yesterday - played
about in the mud doing more
shopping - alone - after tea called at
Schutter’s & Bancroft’s - & Lussmaan’s
& Plunkett’s - Fisk’s have commenced
Monday evening diplomatic recep
-tions & not invited us - Annie
Riggs birthday - bought the tree
for 7 ½ groschens - Heard of Henry
T. Tuckermann’s death of pneu
monia - at his brother Lucius’s [sic]
Busy sewing for Christmas - find
it very slow work - The General
let me in & out yesterday again -
in Germany the military have
all good manners