[from the diary of Anne Madison Willis Ambler]
Tuesday, September 9, 1862
[although in the diary at this date, the entry was written
two weeks later]
I dont feel like writing. Your visit
is over, & you are gone again. Oh the
desolate empty feeling at my heart--it
is not the same that it has been for
two weeks--still when you said good
bye--I laughed---why, I know not but
I am afraid that you think I
am not as distressed as I was when
you left me before.--Indeed you
can never know how much I miss you
[the actual events of September 9 were then recorded]
We spent the day talking over our
separation, you telling your trials &
I mine--
Mr D.left in the evening
Pa sent for his white helps (Yankees)
& this evening they came--seemed much
pleased & Ma is in fine spirits--&
thinks they will suit admirable--
I hope they may, but white servants
are not to my taste--I dread
beginning with them.
[as transcribed in 1972 by her granddaughter Anne Madison Baylor Wright]
MSS 15406
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