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Title: Page [7]
Date Created and/or Issued: 18650107
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Transcription: [written above date]: Stanton General Hospital, Washington D.C. Cold day wind howling dismally. The news today good but very meagre. A very interesting letter from Savanah. descriptive of the City and people if all were so thoughtfull as the wise Mayor of Savanah many happy homes would be shared tis not the place of captured city to dictate to a conquering General his term but to quietly submit at noon received letter from my freind Miss Helen [M.] Sweet of Rochester. Right welcomes long expected. enclosed was a little case to keep my photographs. Must answer tomorrow. This was a very good cheering letter, doing my soul real good to read. In the evering was cheered by seeing my old friend Mr. Moon and had a very good visit and long talk with him in the evening wrote letter to Robert [Dransfield] of Rochester, also made out an [inventory] of material necessary for doing a printing business for the Hospital. Expect to have an [opportunity] to do something at my old trade. No news from my best friend today. -------------------------------- Saturday, January 7. Cold wind howling dismally, the news today good but very meagre. A very interesting letter from Savannah, descriptive of the city and people, if all were so thoughtful as the wise mayor of Savannah many happy homes would be spared, tis not the place of a captured city to dictate to a conquering general his terms but to quietly submit. At noon received letter from my friend Miss Helen M. Sweet of Rochester, right welcomed, long expected, enclosed was a little case to keep my photographs, must answer tomorrow. This was a very good cheering letter, doing my soul real good to read. In the evening was cheered by seeing my old friend Mr. Moon and had a very good visit and long talk with him. In the evening wrote letter to Robert Dranesfield of Rochester, [6.] also made out inventory of material necessary for doing a printing business for the hospital, expect to have an opportunity to do something at my old trade, no news from my best friend today. Note: 6. There is a Robert Dranesfield in Mount Hope Cemetery in Rochester who died in July 1868 at 30 yrs of age. He was a book and job printer at 8 State St. so Nightingale’s letter might have been about possible post war employment. Crooks, Terence G. “Transcribed and Annotated Diaries of Henry Oliver Nightingale.” Unpublished manuscript, 2014. Microsoft Word file.
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