[from the diary of Eliza Oswald Hill, refugee from Wilmington, N.C.]
Monday 10th Not being able to obtain better accommodations
elsewhere we have engaged board for a month here--Our
landlady is very generous--kind and obliging and tho' there
are many things unpleasant about a hotel in a village still
these distressing Wartimes we must learn to accommodate
ourselves to circumstances--and be thankful that we have
a house to shelter us--As many families are on their way
to Chapel Hill now who have lost their all--Liz and Eliza
have been reading Dombey & Son this afternooon while I
have written home--It has been raining all the morning--
we have had many visitors since we came some dozen ladies have
called
MSS 6960
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