Text set / Henry O. Nightingale diary, 1864

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Poor Richard's reasons for buying United States' securities [16]

Enclosure: "My Bible"; "Evening brings us home" [17]

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Title: Facing pages [306-307]
Date Created and/or Issued: 18641101-18641102
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Transcription: Cold day with rain the in the evening received my furlough, to vote my first vote. was very for-tunate in getting my transportation this evening. Will start home in the morning if nothing happens. Was hard at work making out furloughs for New York and Ohio [illegible], received a letter from Judie, shall take them all entirely by surprise. Hurrah for home tomorrow. ------------------------------- November 1, Tuesday. [No entry except a glued on printed copy of the first stanza of The Death of Flowers by W.C. Bryant, and very faintly at the bottom of the page is copied the following.] Who that bears a human bosom, has not often felt, How dear are all the ties which bind our race In gentleness together and how sweet Their force, let fortunes way ward hand the while tho Be kind or cruel. [1.] November 2, Wednesday. Cold day with rain in the evening. Received my furlough, to vote my first vote, was very fortunate in getting my transportation this evening, will start for home in the morning if nothing happens, was hard at work making out furloughs for New York and Ohio men, received a letter from Judie, shall take them all entirely by surprise, hurrah for home tomorrow. Note: 1. This excerpt was written by Mark Akenside(1721-1770), an English poet and physician. It is taken from a larger work entitled The Pleasures of the Imagination, a poem in three parts. Crooks, Terence G. âTranscribed and Annotated Diaries of Henry Oliver Nightingale.â Unpublished manuscript, 2014. Microsoft Word file.
Parent Item: Henry O. Nightingale diary, 1864
Contributing Institution: UC Merced, Library and Special Collections
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