Diary Entry by Edmund Ruffin, November 29, 1857

    Source citation
    Scarborough, William Kauffman, ed. The Diary of Edmund Ruffin. Vol. 1. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1972, p. 135.
    Author (from)
    Edmund Ruffin
    Type
    Diary
    Date Certainty
    Exact
    Transcriber
    Wes McCoy
    Transcription date
    The following text is presented here in complete form, as true to the original written document as possible.
    Nov. 29. Sunday -

    At church. Reading Dr. [Elisha] Kane’s “Arctic Explorations,” at such times as it is not in the hands of my sons, who had begun it earlier. In such intervals, read one of Hans Andersen’s Story Books, for children.
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