After a good night’s rest, I got up betimes on Monday morning, Oct. 17th, a fine morning, & let me say here, the nights were cool. Mr. Fetterley, as he came home in the morning, noted the temperature for me in his garden, & at 5 a.m. Saturday, thermometer read 37°, Sunday morning, 43°, at […]
Detroit, Mich., USA, Saturday Oct 15/98. Very lovely morning. After breakfast, Sarah & I set out to visit Robert Francis Forster, a brother of Father Dan‘s, & one of 20 children of Sarah’s uncle, John Forster. He is a teacher in Sandwich College presently, been educated in same college & now going on the 9th year since […]
Chicago, Mich. [sic] USA. Thursday Oct 13/98. I didn’t go out during the Tuesday forenoon at La Fayette, but after dinner, Sarah, Herbert & I went for a drive, crossed the Wabash river by the fine steel-built bridge, & drove by the river road a short distance. At a trough where a flow of fine spring water […]
Tuesday morning, Oct 11/98, La Fayette, Indiana, USA. Today Albion completes his 4 years’ apprenticeship on board the “Andorinha” & I am hoping soon to hear of their arrival at N. York. Yesterday, after finishing my diary, it drew on to dinner time, & after dinner was interested in the development & printing by Minor & Herbert the […]
La Fayette, Ind., USA, Monday morning, Oct 10/98. I duly posted my diary on Saturday afternoon, also a paper & the post cards, after which Mrs. Matt, Sarah, & I drove to the railway shops for Matt, & after a while there we drove to the cemetery, 2 miles out. We drove leisurely through it, […]
On Thursday morning, up again early & breakfast about 7, & set out. Matt took me to see another brother-in-law, Minor Waters. He is a foreman blacksmith in railway shops. He used to stay with Matt in New Albany, & Matt trained him at the anvil & pushed him on. We saw him at his shops. He lives in […]
It is Friday night. Matt & I came back from Louisville, Kentucky, today. Several of the ladies from other cities travelled in the same car & as they all got out at La Fayette, we concluded they were of the WCTU, & Mrs. Matt is off to the meeting. We did not feel rested so prepared to […]
La Fayette, Indiana, USA. Monday morning, Oct 3/98. You’ll note that I’ve committed nothing to paper (diary) since Wednesday last, but I make notes in my memo book of passing incidents & events, & these are helpful should I forget as I write up the diary. Well now, Wed. night was spent quietly. Some friends […]
Simcoe, Wednesday afternoon, Sep. 28/98. I’ve just written to Willie & enclosed to you a few jottings on incidents you refer to in your letters, & I was glad to get them off my mind. Well, yesterday a most lovely day, never remember a finer, with a sky absolutely cloudless. Mr. Matt Fo[r]ster drove me to the […]
(Now it is Tuesday morning.) Well, to go back to Sunday afternoon. The two gentlemen called & after maybe half hour’s conversation, I accompanied them to the [7:37] house of Mr. McKee & we had tea, Mr. Jackson joining us, tho’ his wife was ill. She had taken so on Saturday night & it was he who […]