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Title: Facing pages [285-286]
Date Created and/or Issued: 18641012-18641013
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Transcription: Very pleasant day out on a [illegible] visited a friend H. Sperry at the Hospital. Also visited Dr. Munson the elective for Pennsylvania and Ohio comes off today. In the evening wrote letter to Judie no news from home. Pleasant but cold day, received a pass well spent 4 hours, with Library of the Captiol reading and examining an engraving work on Pompeii. 3 Vols also examined sketches in Naples a [inelligible] splendid work of [inelligible] illustrations. No news from home. Wrote to my Judie, also to Col. Palmes. ------------------------------ October 12, Wednesday. Pleasant but a wet day. Received a pass, spent 4 hours in the library of the Capitol reading and examining an engrossing work on Pompeii, 3 vols. also examined Sketches in Naples, a large splendid work of lithographical illustrations. [4.] No news from home, wrote to my Judie also Col. Palmer. October 13, Thursday. A huck nears [ or a hock morn or nears no context provided at all]???? Note: 4. The Last Days of Pompeii, 3 volumes, London 1834, was written by Edward Bulwer Lytton (1803-1873) an English novelist, poet, playwright and politician. Sketches and Scenes of Naples published in the 1850’s was the work of Karl Lindemann-Fromell (1819-1891) ,a landscape painter and lithographer. Crooks, Terence G. “Transcribed and Annotated Diaries of Henry Oliver Nightingale.” Unpublished manuscript, 2014. Microsoft Word file.
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Contributing Institution: UC Merced, Library and Special Collections
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