1862 September 6 Suffield, Conn.

[from the diary of the Reverend Francis Butler, future chaplain of the 25th New Jersey]



6 – Sat – fine warm weather wrote letters - dined at Miss Gays
                                                 attended preparatory
lecture by Mr Ballantine – tea at Byron Service’s [?] -  & - calls –
went to our old house & garden Sat under the Golden sweet tree –
     Long talk with Mrs Lewis at Hotel about her conversion –

[transcript by Mary Roy Dawson Edwards]

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