p. 77

Facsimile

Transcription

Status: Needs Review

Monday Pleasant but windy. Sewed in the morning - went out
shopping with Kate in the afternoon and called on Ellen Dickinson
Mary Reeve made a long, pleasant call. Ed Daniel spent the
evening here. We girls spent some time in singing before
we retired.
Tuesday July 20th. Warm and pleasant. Bells were tolled
and cannons fired at sunrise and sunset. About two
o'clock Kate, myself and the boys went to New York to
witness the funeral honors of Henry Clay. Met [Natty?] on
the other side of Rockship? ferry and he escorted us safely
through the crowded streets to the Bowery where he had
engaged seats for us in the second story windows of the
store of Smith and Conant. To Mr Smith we were introduced
at the door - he politely led the way up stairs, seated us
and helped us to some iced water which, after our hasty walk
in the hot sun, we found very refreshing. In about fifteen
minutes the procession commenced passing and did not
conclude till six o'clock. Though it was a magnificent
sight I soon became very much fatigued and only remained
till the conclusion on Kate's account, who never having
seen anything of the kind before was anxious to see it
all. On leaving Natty urged us to go to Broadway and
refresh ourselves with some ice-cream. I was very
unwilling but as Kate and Nat were so desirous to go
I consented but we had no ice-cream however. Broadway
was a perfect jam and getting through the crowd as quickly as
possible we hastened home. I was very much fatigued, even more
so than Kate who says she can stand a great deal more than I can
[if?] she is [a southerner?].

Notes and Questions

Nobody has written a note for this page yet

Please sign in to write a note for this page

Transcription Conventions

Spelling: Maintain original spelling (including u/v, i/j, and ff). Long "s" should be replaced with a regular "s". Terminal long "i" characters are transcribed as "i" not "j".
Hyphenation: Preserve hyphens (including "=" characters) at the ends of lines.
Capitalization: Maintain original
Punctuation: Add modern periods, but don't add punctuation like commas and apostrophes.
Deletions: Deleted characters and words are tagged with "strike" and then displayed with the line through them.
Symbols: For apothecary and alchemical symbols, use these symbols followed by the meaning of the symbol in brackets: Rx [recipe]; ℈ [scruple]; ʒ [dram]; ʒs [half dram]; ℥ [ounce]; ℥s [half ounce]; ℔ [pound].
For roman numerals following symbols that indicate amount, i.e., j=1, ij=2, iij= 3, v=5, type arabic numeral in brackets following roman numeral: i [1], ii [2], iii [3], v [5].
Line Breaks: Hit return once after each line ends. Two returns indicate a new paragraph, which is usually indentation following the preceding sentence in the original. The times at the end of each entry should get their own paragraph, since the software does not support indentation in the transcriptions.
Illegible text: Indicate illegible readings in single square brackets: [Dr?]
A single newline indicates a line-break in the original document, and will not appear as a break in the text in some views or exports. Two newlines indicate a paragraph, and will appear as a paragraph break in all views.