[from the diary of Anne Maidson William Ambler]
Feeling tired nursing, & waiting, on three children all
the time, & besides my sewing is standing idle-
I thought I would make an effort to get
a nurse, Fannie & I walked to Mr. Porters &
succeeded in getting a child about ten, but
I fear she is too small to assist me much
though she may be taught to wait on the
children & I only give her her winter clothes--
We found Mrs. Bennett & [?] Scammond at Porters
poor Mrs. B--she looks wretchedly--. also met there
Mrs. Sanborne who spoke to me for Patty, & said
Fannie was Miss Martha Willis, we undeceived them--
& they told us the physicians had been let out
of Town & they thought persons could go in, & out
now without difficulty.--
After dinned F[annie] read a letter from Mr. Everette
which Pa pronounced true indeed it makes me sad
to hear Pa talk as he does. I feel that we must be
wrong too & fear we are all plunging into
ruin together--Oh: that we may all lift up
our voices to God & implore him to save us.
--Pa brought news that the Northern
papers report that Hill attacked Banks
with overwhelming force & we hope, that means
Banks is entirely defeated----
[portions transcribed in 1972 by her granddaughter Anne Willis Wright Baylor]
MSS 15406
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