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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 [150-151]
Date Created and/or Issued: 18640529-18640530
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Transcription: This is a bright and very fine day. Feel much better Prof. N visited me a few moments. He has to return tomorrow how much I should liked to have gone with him but I cannont as my furlough has not returned. Was also visited by an old friend [illegible] formerly of the 108th. Shoulder painful. Rather [illegible] and damp. Prof Northup came and bid me goodbye. I hope to see him soon in Rochester. Feel rather low spirited but look forward with hope to the time when I shall see home. It is very tiresome to have to lie in bed all day. ------------------------------ May 29, Sunday. This is a bright and very fine day, feel much better. Prof. N. visited me a few moments, he has to return tomorrow. How much I should liked to have gone with him but I cannot as my furlough has not yet returned. Was also visited by an old friend Uncle Ben Wait [13.] formerly of the 108th , shoulder painful. May 30, Monday. Rather chilly and damp. Prof. Northrup came and bid me goodbye, I hope to see him soon in Rochester, feel rather low spirited but look forward with hope to the time when I shall see home, it is very tiresome to have to lie a bed all day. Note: 13. Benjamin Wait, age 42, enlisted Rochester Aug. 6, 1862 was mustered in as pvt. Co. G. and was discharged for disability on March 17, 1863. Crooks, Terence G. âTranscribed and Annotated Diaries of Henry Oliver Nightingale.â Unpublished manuscript, 2014. Microsoft Word file.
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