ENPages That Mention Sarah Wilde
Mary Emma Jocelyn diary, 1851-1852.
p. 13
Sunday.. Cloudy.. Spent the morning at home in reading. In the afternoon attended Sunday School and Communion. Rain kept me home in the evening.
Monday.. Pleasant. In the morning received a letter from Sarah Wilde Carrie and I went into Grand ['st?] of an errand, afterwards I called on Mrs Stearns. George Hudson and Kate called in the afternoon. Mr Dias brought us some [music?] books in the evening
Tuesday.. Pleasant . Tried an experiment in the millinery line. In the afternoon Carrie Mary Reeve and I called on Hannah Wilde, took tea with her and spent the evening. We had a very pleasant time. I enjoyed the society of the sweet little children very much. Little children ! earth's sweetest blossoms! How I love them. Joseph and Nathaniel joined us in the morning. We left about half past two.
Wednesday.. Sewed busily all day. In the evening we all attended singing school at our church taught by Mr Taylor C. Warner I liked it very much. The Hudsons accompanied us home.
Thursday..Carrie made a large quantity of fruit cake in the morning Hannah Wilde called in the afternoon and accompanied me to distribute my tracts. Called on Mary Reeve, and then Carrie and I went into Grand ['st?] ]] shopping. Attended Lyceum in the evening escorted by Natty. Dr W. Bettaner? delivered a very interesting lecture on "Java and the Javanise". Begh Dickinson? accompanied Carrie as usual. She also received a call from Mr Talbot in the afternoon.
p. 62
Tuesday, March 16th.. Went into Grand st of an errand, and called on Mrs Tucker. Sewed in the afternoon
Wednesday.. Rained in the morning and snowed in the afternoon.. Received a box from Mrs Leager and Ellen containing two very pretty boxes, crochet patterns a worsted pattern and letters from Ellen and her mother to Carrie and I. We were much pleased with them all. -- Mr & Mrs Hudson, Kate and Henry came over in the afternoon and took tea with us. Mr Murphy was also here and George He came in the evening. We had a very pleasant time both in the afternoon and evening. We had prayers and sing-ing together about half-past ten and soon after they left. Mr Hudson presented Father with a $20 bank note
Thursday.. Cloudy and damp. Wrote to Ellen Leager. Cornelius who has been complaining for the last two weeks was suddenly taken very ill with the rheumatism and the doctor was called. He was put to bed, the Doctor's prescriptions attended to and he soon felt much better. Sarah Wilde spent the afternoon here.
She has improved a little during her long sojourn from home but is herself still. She amused us very much Henry Hudson called and accompanied me to Lyceum in the evening. The Rev Mr. Pierpont delivered his celebrated poem on New England. It was received with much applause
p. 118
Friday, May 7th.. Clear and sultry. Sarah Wilde spent the greater part of the afternoon here, and her incessant chattering afforded Carrie and I considerable amusement. As Carrie says, we love to hear her talk just to see what a goose she will make of herself. But [Sarah] has some good qualities notwithstanding; she is good-hearted, generous and affectionate, yet a child she will always be, for what is necessary to make a [lady, scratched out] woman or a lady she has no idea. Her life is all outside; of the inward she has but a dim perception looking merely at externals her childish fancy is gratified or displeased accordingly, and her smiles and tears follow each other in as quick succession as those of any baby five or six years old. She has just beauty enough to make her vain, and by hearing the conversation of other young ladies she has gathered some notions of the beaux and getting married, on which engrossing topics she discourses with the most innocent, and original fluency. To the no small edification of her amazed and diverted hearers. But in fact in this wordly wise age, when a maiden of ten knows more than the grandmother did at twenty it is refreshing to meeting occaisionally with such an artless specimen of young ladyhood and were not her simplicity so apt to degenerate into nonsense, she would really be an interesting girl.
[written sideways along margin] Attending prayer meeting with Father of the Wilde's in the evening