Saturday, 28 September 1861
Stormy & showery. Paid bills & ran about.
Mrs. V.C.
V. Crake.
3 Woodbine Parishes ―
3 Taylors ―
8 came ―
& just as it was pouring with rain, & I was wondering how I should get to the Crakes ―
Dined at the Crakes.
Wet thro’ coming home, & savage.
[Transcribed by Marco Graziosi from Houghton Library, Harvard University, MS Eng. 797.3.]