It has been fearfully hot - is still so - [illegible] 3 days 75 cts a day -Mrs Stewart - [?]eymous & Frank Blair [?]inated by the Democrats -
Sunday July 19th Went down with the Branens [?]Tuesday last - to Bailey's country place in the afternoon, pretty houses - & sip [?] as fine children as I ever saw - a happy family - Amelia looks young - but was never[?] pretty - Minsey [?] is a great tall sallors [?] American looking girl - [?oes] face [?] of the rosy face English type one sees here Wednesday I dined at Trimble's - Thursday the Brewer's went home - so did I - with Mary Black's Margaret &