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Facing pages [240-241]
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18640827-18640828
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[blank] Wrote to my Judith. But have had no letter from her. Nor from home. "You ask me love, how many times I think of you a day. I frankly answer only once And mean just what I say. You seem perplexed and somewhat hurt But wait and hear the rhyme Pray how can one do, more than once What one does all the time." Anagrams. Debt [dun] every lady twice credit, call regularly every day I'll trust. -------------------------------- August 28, Sunday. Wrote to my Judith, but have no letter from her, nor from home. [He includes a hand written copy of a poem entitled Once All the Time, after this part of the entry] Anagrams DEBT – Dun [4.] every body twice CREDIT – Call every day regularly I’ll trust Note: 4. Dun –to importune a debtor for payment. Crooks, Terence G. “Transcribed and Annotated Diaries of Henry Oliver Nightingale.” Unpublished manuscript, 2014. Microsoft Word file.

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Henry O. Nightingale diary, 1864
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UC Merced, Library and Special Collections
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Henry O. Nightingale diaries

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