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Title: Facing pages [62-63]
Date Created and/or Issued: 18640302-18640303
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Transcription: Nothing [unusual]. Mother, How sweet the recollection in after years of a mother's tender training. It were well that to a mother this duty should be [confided] if it were only for the delicious pleasure of [musing] on it after many long years of struggling with the cold solitude of [life]. Who is there that finds no relief in [recursing] to the scenes of his infancy and youth gilded with the memory of a mothers love, and how many have nobly [illegible] that to the solitary influence then exerted they must ascribe their future success. Their [avoidance] of [evil] when no eye was upon them but rested upon the hurt, the warming prayers and tears of a mother. "Anon" Nothing unusual. A writer beautifully remarks that a man's Mother is the representative of his Maker. Misfortune and even crime set up no barriers between her and her Son. While his Mother lives, he will have one friend on earth who will not listen when he is slandered, who will not desert him when he suffers who will sooth him in his sorrows and speak to him of hope when he is really to dispair. Her affection flows from a [pure] fountain and ceases only at the [ocean] of eternity. ------------------------------ March 2, Wednesday. Nothing unusual. [Written out in longhand is a poem on the recollection of Mother – with the usual 19th century Victorian hyperbole and sentimentality- can be read online.] [2.] March 3, Thursday. Nothing unusual. [ Once more a copied expression on Mother and her training, taken from the Genesee Farmer for March 1849 – needless to say Nightingale had time on his hands.] Note: 2. Taken from John F. McCoy’s A Tribute of Flowers to the Memory of Mother, p.42 Crooks, Terence G. “Transcribed and Annotated Diaries of Henry Oliver Nightingale.” Unpublished manuscript, 2014.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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