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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 [152-153]
Date Created and/or Issued: 18640531-18640601
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Transcription: Was in hopes that I should receive my furlough in time to start today but did not get it until 9 in the evening. All of the [slightly] wounded were transfered today to New York City received letter from home. Where I hope to carry my own self as an answer tomorrow how good home will seem. [illegible- Paper clipping is covering some text] AM. arrived in Baltimore at 12 M. Had to remain there until 3 PM arrived in Harrisburgh at 6PM and had to remain there until nearly 2 o'clock in the morning. [Crossed out text] Feel unsually warm my shoulder very painful no rest [illegible] put up at the City Hotel [expenses] [$1.50]. Hope soon to be once more at home from which I have been about over 15 months in the [illegible] was treated with great [indulgence] by several gents from Delaware. Also kindly treated by [Hon.] E. D. Smith of R. in [illegible] ------------------------------ May 31, Tuesday. Was in hope that I should receive my furlough in time to start today but did not get it until 9 in the evening. All of the slightly wounded were transferred today to New York City. Received letter from home where I hope to carry my own self as an answer tomorrow, how good home will seem. June 1, Wednesday. Harrisburgh (sic) Pa. [the opening section, probably giving his time of departure from Washington is covered with a glued on piece of paper containing some poetry on June,]. ….A.M. Arrived in Baltimore at 12M had to remain there until 3 pm arrived in Harrisburgh at 6pm, had to remain there until nearly 2 o’clock in the morning arrived in Elmira at 11 am and remained feel unusually worn, my shoulder very painful, no rest whatever, put up in the city hotel, expensive - $1.50. Hope soon to be once more at home from which I have been absent over 15 months. In the cars was treated with great indulgence by reverend gents from Delaware also kindly treated by Hon. E.D. Smith of R. in Avon. [1.] Note: 1. E.D. Smith was a judge and justice of the peace. The line of verse on June is taken from The Life of Man and of the Year, by Henrietta A. Hardy, reproduced in Sartains Magazine, Vol. viii, June 1851. Crooks, Terence G. “Transcribed and Annotated Diaries of Henry Oliver Nightingale.” Unpublished manuscript, 2014. Microsoft Word file.
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