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Nov. 11-17
I'm sick in bed all day...but better toward evening and down in the sitting room. Monday get packed up in order to send off the trunks to the junction by the four o'clock train. Take quite a long walk after dinner; see more of the country around Ashland than I've done in the whole time that I've been down. It does not bear comparison with our blue mountains and red hills. Oh, how I want a sight of them. How can Sue live away from them? Tuesday morning bright and early, John and I set off in a buggy for the Junction where I am to take the cars for home, sweet home. Have a cold miserable ride of nine miles in an hour and ten minutes and get there just in time. Say good-bye to John and ride off. It is my first trip by myself. Miss Leaton [from The Piedmont Institute] is the only familiar face I see around me but I get on very comfortably and find Dave and Met waiting for me at the Depot. Mary Lewis and Dick are also in town to welcome me. Dick's joy at the sight of me is quite remarkable. Dear little fellow, I believe he does love sister Lou .... Reach home in due time and Oh, how happy I feel. How I wish Sue was along but hope to have her at Christmas. Get unpacked. The children and old folks are all pleased with their presents from Richmond. Mary Lewis and Nannie express great admiration for the pitchers so I'm not singular in my taste ....[Visitors and letters written and received.] A letter from Miss Vallant. She tells me little Maggie has had Scarlet Fever which prevented her being with us this Saturday. She may perhaps come next week. Commenced school and some regular reading. I had a niece born while I was away, sister Betty's ninth child but as I did not know the exact date waited to put it down but it seemed a difficult thing to have it correct and I do not know it yet.
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