University of Virginia Library

Dec. 17-23

Do not go to church. Read The Lives of the Three Mrs. Judsons. A very readable book. A letter from Dave. He tells me The Conquered Banner is by a lady of St. Louis, a Miss Irene Schomberg. John Mac comes home Tuesday. The hardest times I ever saw. Even in the days of the Confederacy money was never as hard to get. No one seems to have any. People really appear to be living without money but it is right hard to do. Hogs killed this week.