Feb. 1-7
Finish reading The Priest, Puritan and Preacher by Ryle. Like it much. Also Miss Rives new work Home and
the World, which I consider very indifferent and [Anna Sophia] Stephens' Mrs. Massies in 1 vol with which I
am both edified and amused. Lizzie Dee leaves us on Friday. We both feel very lonely without her . ....A letter
from S P Williamson, also one from Betty Bankhead. Mary Lewis at home the last of the week. Hear Aunt Ria
talks of visiting Virginia in the Spring. We will all give her a hearty welcome. Old Tammy Elpha, the horse,
sleeps his last sleep. Some foggy mornings might imagine yourself in England.