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Title: Page [11]
Date Created and/or Issued: 18650111
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Transcription: [written above date]: Stanton General Hospital, Washington D.C. A cool but much pleasanter day than yesterday, quite a sudden change, feel very well. War news of no account. At work as usual in the office considerable to do. Board of Examiners met again today. A man by the name of Hayes died this morning. He had been here but a few days. Wrote several pages in my new scrapbook, in the afternoon read a few chapters in Hopes and Fears. Find it a very interesting story. In the afternoon (4) received a letter from my betrothed announcing the painful news that my Uncle had fallen and badly injured his leg broken last summer. In the evening wrote long letter in answer. Had quite a social talk with some comrads on the interesting topic of marriage. One contending that it was more prejudicial than good. I could not agree with him on the whole. The discussion wath quite interesting. Prayer meeting in the 11 Ward concluded by Rev. W. H. Channing Hospital Chaplain. Succeded quite well in my resolutions. ------------------------------- Wednesday, January 11. A cool but much pleasanter day than yesterday, quite a sudden change. Feeling well, war news of no account, at work as usual in the office, considerable to do. Board of Examiners met again today. A man by the name of Hayer died this morning, he had been here but a few days, wrote several pages in my new scrapbook. In the afternoon read a few chapters in ‘Hope and Fears’, find it a very interesting story. In the afternoon received from my beloved a letter announcing the painful news that my uncle had fallen and badly injured his leg broken last summer. In the evening wrote long letter in answer. Had quite a social talk with some comrades on the interesting topic of marriage, one contending that it was a more prejudicial than good. I could not agree with him, on the whole the discussion was quite interesting. Prayer meeting in the 11 ward conducted by Rev. W.H. Channing Hospital Chaplain. Succeeded quite well in my resolutions. Crooks, Terence G. “Transcribed and Annotated Diaries of Henry Oliver Nightingale.” Unpublished manuscript, 2014. Microsoft Word file.
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