Box 25

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Copy book and two loose poems. Some by friends, including Fanny Canby

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Brief description as told by Martha Ferris

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Short entries of daily activities

Scope and Contents Anna commences her diary noting that rather than daybooks, she decides to keep a journal in which she can record with greater details days of more interest and skip those in which there was little of note. She worries that year will bring sadness, and May 3, her step-mother, Hannah (Gibbons) Ferris died. Anna is a close friend of Susan Wharton. She mentions the election of Lincoln, comments that it was purely on doctrine. Comments on the country being suddenly in the midst of a civil war....

Scope and Contents Year begins with thoughts of the soldiers. Saw the 1st Delaware honored, but they seemed "insensible to their triumph, " battle--weary. Also, African-American soldiers who were being sent to lower Delaware to recruit enslaved people to join the army. Attended Great Central Fair in Philadelphia in June 1864. Joy at end of long war and abolishment of slavery, then to Philadelphia to see Lincoln's body pass through. By 1866, despairing again about the politics and the treachery of the...