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Sept. 23-29
Sunday, dear Jim's 21st Birthday. Have the old Bishop to preach for us today. The 2nd sermon I have heard from him and it was very fine. Subject the true joys of a Christian. Hear that Miss Vallant arrived at Castalia some day last week. How I want to see her ....News from Sue. She and John will be up on Saturday next. Friday evening I was roused from a nap by the arrival of Miss Vallant, Alice, Ellen and Lizzie Minor. I was so delighted to be with Miss Vallant again. The many things to talk of. The sixteen months that she has been absent from Virginia have seemed long and eventful. They have seemed a lifetime to me. Miss Vallant looks well and expressed great pleasure at being among her old friends. She is a dear good woman and I wish much she would always stay among us. The girls came up on a shopping expedition. I went on to town with them and helped Lizzie. Sue and John get up on the cars this morning and I go back [to Pantops] with them. I'm very glad Sue and Miss Vallant had an opportunity of meeting. Sue has come to make a visitation of some weeks. John expects to return the first of the week. Saturday evening Miss Vallant and the girls leave. I'm sorry they cannot stay until Monday, especially Miss Vallant. Feel as if I had hardly seen her. So many thoughts that I want to talk to her about but I am thankful to have seem her even for this little while. Poor Uncle Hatter's wife, Aunt Maria, died on Friday night. She had been long sick. The old man was very much distressed.
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