DIY History | Transcribe | Iowa Women’s Lives: Letters and Diaries | Ellen Mowrer Miller writings, 1865-1869

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Sabbath Eve.  May 23rd 1869.
Have been very busey of late & have neglected you my dear old diry, but this eve we will have a nice little tete a tete. Fro al have left us. that is (Mil) & I love to write on thy lovely pages. how I would be so happy if my thoughts would flow, so fast that I could write so often without thinking what [illegible] write,- but when I look around on nature my [sopturous?] soul longs fro  to [illegible] it song of [illegible] & prayer to the holey one, who does all things well. now as I [exsit?] tis under the [illegible] of the [illegible] as they meldby blind their song with the gentle breeze of the dewy night. now the trees that but a few month ago [divided?] & dodged in the bleek & [sulhteros?] winds of sinter. that been couvered all about by the fleecy snow. Who been the [illegible] [illegible] of the [cryolitised?] [dimant?] as they glissened in the lovely sunshine. Oft has my lingering gase [illegible] on their loveliness, so inocent so pure & yet so are fully grand, that I would [illegible] it [illegible] their that say "There is no God", was [illegible] [illegible] meeting last-[sale?]. had a big [illegible] with Mrs. Howard, [illegible] she would come up some time. I was with her. Said Mrs Gee was"miserable' he was [illegible] all over. She looks like a Mrs Howard. S. was [illegible] fro the do what down the road a peace. last eve Charly came after some medesine fro [coletha?].

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Sabbath Eve. May 23rd 1869. Have been very busey of late & have neglected you my dear old diry, but this eve we will have a nice little tete a tete. Fro al have left us. that is (Mil) & I love to write on thy lovely pages. how I would be so happy if my thoughts would flow, so fast that I could write so often without thinking what [illegible] write,- but when I look around on nature my [sopturous?] soul longs fro to [illegible] it song of [illegible] & prayer to the holey one, who does all things well. now as I [exsit?] tis under the [illegible] of the [illegible] as they meldby blind their song with the gentle breeze of the dewy night. now the trees that but a few month ago [divided?] & dodged in the bleek & [sulhteros?] winds of sinter. that been couvered all about by the fleecy snow. Who been the [illegible] [illegible] of the [cryolitised?] [dimant?] as they glissened in the lovely sunshine. Oft has my lingering gase [illegible] on their loveliness, so inocent so pure & yet so are fully grand, that I would [illegible] it [illegible] their that say "There is no God", was [illegible] [illegible] meeting last-[sale?]. had a big [illegible] with Mrs. Howard, [illegible] she would come up some time. I was with her. Said Mrs Gee was"miserable' he was [illegible] all over. She looks like a Mrs Howard. S. was [illegible] fro the do what down the road a peace. last eve Charly came after some medesine fro [coletha?].