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Mrs J. W. Harvey has a dinner for Mifs Bonney of Louisville. Today is milder, flurries of snow all night and this morning, still snowing. all here at Lake Forest as well. I have a sore throat for two days. We expect Mrs Shreve Badger from Hemilsworth to lunch with us. Lake Forest is a beautiful place, with many large houses, with immense yards, and a very fashionable society - giving entertainments all the time, there are many very wealthy people here, and they keep up a great deal of pleasure and games. Mrs Shreve Badger came out at eleven o'clock and stayed until four, then the Carriage came for her, and she went home. We had a delicious luncheon. Archie our coloured Butler, is a fine waiter, his wife is Mrs Ballards Laundress and Henrietta, the Cook, is also coloured Mrs Ballard, sent to Philadelfhia for these servants and brought them out here. They had the same servants at the Seaside To night Mrs Ballard has a sore throat and hoarse - she went out to look at some houses - and walked in the deep snow. I think that gave her cold. To night my daughter Mrs J.W. Harvey has a dinner party for her sons, Elbert & Paul, Mif?? Bonney of Louisville is the guest of the evening.