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July 8 -14
Do not attend church. Sam stays with us. Monday, Mary Lewis and Mammy Eliza go over to town shopping and bring back Katie Whitehead with them. I'm so pleased for I love her so much. She is among the few that I count as my friend. We have such nice times together, reading, sleeping and talking. A letter from Sue; she seems happy in her new home. They are all kindness and attentive toward her. On Wednesday Lizzie Dee joins us. She gives me all the particulars of Miss Carrie's sojourn at Ridgway. Poor little woman, I fear she was not very kindly cared for. What a world this might be if people would only consider the comforts of others a little more and exercise some Christian charity towards those who many think differently from them. I'm afraid Miss Carrie will not carry back to Maine very exalted ideas of the kindness of Virginians to strangers. Lizzie and Kate stay until Friday evening. When they are gone I feel a kind of lonely. A letter from Brother Jim; he and sister Mary are about taking wing for the Green Springs. Saturday I answer it. Mary Lewis in bed all day with a cold. Sam to supper. I'm poorly again; had quite a time from the aches of moon this week. Mammy very sick. I feel so troubled about her. Wrote Sue a long letter early in the week, propose to exchange a weekly epistle with her ....
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