Pages That Mention Allen Seager?
Mary Emma Jocelyn diary, 1851-1852.
p. 34
Friday. The cold has moderated sensibly, and it is much more pleasant. The snow is beginning to melt. Commenced a letter to Allen Seager?. __ George Hudson called in the afternoon. To oblige Sarah to [Lad?] in the morning [errand?] over to the city of New York to [ascertain?] whether the boats were running on the Stonington line He found that they did not not the Sound being full of ice, there was also so much ice in the river that he was two hours in crossing. [Houston?] street ferry. Lo miss Sarah will not be able to return this week. though she is very anxious to do so. --
About two years ago when Carrie was in Stonington she had her daguerreotype taken there, and gave it to Sarah, and S-- brought it here with her this winter. It is a miserable little picture -- a perfect fright com -pared to the original; just such a one as we might expect to obtain in a village like Stonington. George has been trying to get it to carry off with him but Carrie will not let him have it. Then he wants to have us three sit for our daguerreotype in a group We had a great deal of fun about it, and Sarah jokingly told him that he might have hers. He took her up in earnest, and this afternoon claimed her promise. Sarah thought it her duty to keep her word, so with [George?] and I she went to [Dur-----'s] Gallery, and obtained an excellent one. George purchased [an?] beautiful case for it, and it was very pretty inside and out. It was nearly dark when we returned.
[Side] George came in and staid some time. He tried to persuade me to have my daguerreotype taken with Sarah's but I refused