Tuesday, October 9, 2012

1862 October 10 Fauquier County, Va.

[from the diary of Anne Madison Willis Ambler]

After breakfast read my Bible & then
finished Silverwood, but I do not like
that as much as I did Mrs L[?]
After reading was going to write when
Mrs Blackburn Ellen & Kate came over to
spend the day--Enjoyed hearing them
talk very much--Hite called to see
Pa---  We live in a [fever?] these
days coming, & going all the time.  I
long for a nice quiet home again.
Can not feel settled, Truly never
has the saying more appropriate than
now- No knowing what a day may
bring forth, I feel this every hour.
I long to hear, & still dread the veil to be
lifted each day,  There is no rest, no
peace this side the grave.

[as transcribed in 1972 by her granddaughter Anne Madison Wright Baylor]

MSS  15406

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