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Facing pages [244-245]
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18640831-18640901
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Answered [Mip] Williams letter & enclosed note for Judie, no news from home. Today we were mustered for two months pay. Late this evening received a letter from Judie answer to two of mine of the 26th and 21 of August. Fine quiet day in the fore noon wrote to Judie a long letter. -------------------------------- August 31, Wednesday. Answered Miss William letter, I enclosed note for Judie, no news from home Today we were mustered for two months pay, late this evening received a letter from Judie in answer to mine of the 26th & 21st of August, September 1, Thursday. The sultry summer past, September comes / Soft Twilight of the slow, declining year. [Pasted over the date and day] [1.] Fine great day, in the forenoon wrote to Judith a long letter. Note: The poetic fragment is from Carlos Wilcox (1794-1827), minor American Poet, and is the opening line from his poem ‘September’. Crooks, Terence G. “Transcribed and Annotated Diaries of Henry Oliver Nightingale.” Unpublished manuscript, 2014. Microsoft Word file.

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Henry O. Nightingale diary, 1864
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UC Merced, Library and Special Collections
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Henry O. Nightingale diaries

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