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76) image of a row of buildings on a road by water with a small sailboat They had a Presbyterian Fair, also, that was very stupid, where the made $700. I went to a sewing society at Mrs Gilberts, & I never was so bored in my life except at Mrs Griffins dinner party. Deliver me from sewing societies!! There is a brother here of The English Mr Wheeler we knew in Nice, who looks horrid, just like the Prince of Wales; he has tried every way to be introduced to us, but Sister sails down to dinner, & then sails up stairs, & gives him no chance. There was also a little Mary Kernedy here, that I liked v̶e̶r̶y̶ ̶m̶u̶c̶h̶ , because she looked so very much like Minnie... I have seen but little of the Benedicts, for Mary & I, have not one single point in common,

(77 image of a small bridge over a creek leading to a stone gate with a horse and buggy in the background Monday. March 21st. The alligator died last night, a most untimely death, & from no apparent cause; I feel dreadfully about it, & especially so, because I did not paint his picture as I might have done. - The two? Foster came in again last night; I had already bidden Jack good bye twice, when he went out to his farm (twenty-eight miles on the road to Jacksonville) last week. But he decided to come in yesterday-morning, on his "calico horse" which for form & color has no equal in all Florida.. Mamma, Miss Livingston, & I took a moonlight walk on the sea wall; I did not dare tell Sister, though it did not hurt me a bit. - We went up to the "fort," & then past the Florida