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1867.
August 24th
Saturday. Lady Young paid us a long visit on Saturday. The new gardens with the cleaned brick borders pleased her. she told me the [to] send to the Goverment [government] gardens for anything I wanted to stock them & remarked that our "
Garden would look very nice next summer, but I shall not see it".
Said Mr Parker had again promised to get a sum of money placed on the estimates for a new wing which she hoped to get before they left.
I ventured to remark that since her lady ship was the first to move in the matter it was very desirable the [that] she should. I asked her if she could send us some work. Her Ladyship very kindly promised she would.

Sabbath.
25th. Revd. W. Mills preached 11 oclk
Mr L. Crawford 3 oclk and J. Watt in the eveg.
Ester Brace was brought from the breakfast meeting and beg.d and implored for readmission & forgiveness. She is so changed.
has slept out for this last week and taken cold - has a pain in her
side, a bad cough - a sore mouth and her condition is most wretched. I took her to Mrs S. Smith to ask if she might come in, after all she had done to greive [grieve] the ladies. Ester was so feeble, could scarsly [scarcely] walk as far and is so stupid, that I fear she has been druged [drugged]. she owns to having had one [underscored] glass of spirits [inserted]. Ordered her a bath, clean linen, some creams of Tartar and sulphur and to go to bed - to have quietness [underscored] as well as well as rest. She being in such a state of exitment [excitement] her lips have to be lubricated with a feather dip'd [dipped]
in oil.