June 10-16.
No church. Mary Lewis and I go to town shopping. Buy me a new black dress for which I paid $12. Coming
home we get fastened in the ford by a rock. Have to stay in the river some fifteen or twenty minutes. It seemed
a perfect age to us for it was anything but pleasant to be in the middle of the river and unable to move and night
at hand. George [Cousin George Meriwether from Missouri who is visiting] succeeds at last in extricating us. I
write to Aunt Alice, a letter of thanks for her and Aunt Jane's nice present to Ma ....