University of Virginia Library

April 26-May 2

Mr. Meade gives us a beautiful sermon on the shortness of life .....Go down to visit Music Hall and Castalia. Find Miss Betsey at the former place and Aunt Ria and Betty Hansborough at the last mentioned so we have quite a number of friends around us. Miss Betsey discourses about Orange and "the inhabitants thereof." Aunt Ria is her own little self. We have some warm talks about Yankees. Aunt Sally has a sewing bee. We get through quite a number of shirts. Have an ice cream for dinner for being so industrious. Hear John Halifax, [Gentleman, by Dinah Mulock] read aloud.