Record Data
Source citation
Susan Bradford Eppes, December 2, 1859, Through Some Eventful Years (Macon, GA: Press of the J.W. Burke Co., 1926), 120-121.
Type
Diary
Date Certainty
Exact
Transcriber
Transcription adapted from Through Some Eventful Years (1926), by Susan Bradford Eppes
Adapted by Michael Blake, Dickinson College
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Transcription
The following transcript has been adapted from Through Some Eventful Years (1926).
December 2nd, 1859 -- This is the day John Brown is to be hung. We are not going to school today for Miss Platt is sick in bed with a headache. When Fanny took her breakfast upstairs to her she would not open the door, just said she did not wish any. I took her dinner to her but she answered me through the half-opened door that she was too ill to eat. I asked if I could send the doctor to her but she did not want him; said she often had such attacks and she would be well in the morning; said she did not wish to be disturbed at supper time.
