The following excerpts were provided by the seller: ""..... A pleasant day. Laura and Em Darling have been here all evening. Em and I played duets, Laura and Clarkie played backgammon. Dell came over and afterwards we all played croquet .... Orlin Dewey's brother is here trying to get up writing school, he is staying here tonight .... Father made candy this eve. The storm that has been gathering for the past few weeks burst in all its fury tonight ..... Marriette Goslin was buried today. I went to meeting this forenoon but not to the funeral this afternoon. Frank came down about noon, we had a long sober talk that done us both good .... A pleasant day, began stripping carpet rags today. Frank and Arthur Davis came here from their sisters about noon, her husbands mother was taken sick this morning about 5 oclock and before 9 was dead. The boys were on their way home and couldn't stop. Arthur stoped down to Kemps store, Frank came here and got his things .... Father and Clarkie have been to Ryegate with the team today. Mama and I ironed this forenoon, striped and sewed carpet rags all the afternoon .... Father started for Barre this morning with team. Arthur Davis was down today to see father about hiring him this summer, but as he was gone, he decided to see him tomorrow night. Clarkie has given out invitations for a party here tomorrow night ..... Father has gone to Bradford today for the last time, he says, on runners. Clarkie came down to Nells after me by 6 1/2 this morning. We had not any of us got up. Nellie would not keep the tears out of her eyes when she bid us goodbye. We shall miss her when she is gone .... This morn went down to Adds., Em G. was there acting as table girl, waited till Em and Nellie Minard were ready to go to school. Add. gave me one of her young female birds on condition that I would "love her most to pieces" ..... Uncle Cail was over this afternoon, they do not expect Aunt Emma to live more than a few weeks at most, she is able to be dressed and rides out a little ways every day, but is very poor, not able to speak out loud or to sit up near all the time .... Father and mother have been to Chelsea today, started this morning at 6, got home about 7, brought Aunt Dede back, traveling perfectly awful. Aunt Emma about the same, mother brought me a picture of native India girl, 10 years old, who is being educated by a society of girls at Chelsea. They have her picture for sale at 10 cts. each .... Have been down to Em's this evening, carried down Aunt Julia's Autograph Album for the boys to write in, it was given her by her Sunday School Scholars and she wants all their names in it .... Received a letter from "Sister Ada" tonight and her baby's picture, taken when she was six months old. I was delighted .... Mr. James and his bride appeared today. She seems, from the glimpse I had of her, healthy, pleasant and sensible. We are all prepared to like her. Mother and I went with a number of others, soon as meeting was out and received an introduction to her .... We all went to Sunday School, the minister did not come down so Uncle Lon and Charlie Dickey went up to the parsonage to see "what the matter could be" and found the minister has a boil on the back of his neck and can not move his head .... Warm and pleasant, everything is full of sap. Up to the sugar place. Clarkie is up there boiling this evening. Em Corliss and I have been playing backgammon all the evening. She staid till after ten, she isn't going to school anymore, her mother needs her, besides she can't endure Aaron .... Will Derkey died last Wednesday morning of abscess on the brain. Have changed my mind abut teaching, mother is not well enough to be left alone, so I have given up the school .... 4 years ago today since we moved to Post Mills, brick making .... Chas Carpenter came on the stage tonight, he is to make the brick machine .... Got a dispatch this morning from Chelsea, sent at 2 1/2 yesterday (the stage driver neglected handing it in last night) saying that Aunt Emma was failing fast and for some of us to come over if possible .... Uncle Lon and Aunt Mary started as soon as they could get ready. We got a card tonight saying she was alive but very low .... Commenced learning the millinery trade of Mrs Corliss today. I hope to succeed better than on last winters dressmaking and I think I shall for mother is pretty well now ..... This afternoon Mr James and wife came down to Aunt Mays, he examined me for a certificate by giving me the papers and not coming near me again till I had got them out, then as there wasn't time to look them over here, he took them with him saying he would send me the certificate .... Have done my first school marming today and like it very much. There are 5 scholars, all girls, 4 from Simpsons and 1 from Metcalfs. Em and baby carried me down this morning, walked back tonight .... Mother and I are rather inclined to the blues about some things to day .... I frightened the family half out of their wits this morning. There is a steep hill covered with rocks and tree's a little ways from the house and there is a cross bull kept in the pasture there but I did not know it and as it looked so inviting up there, I went up after breakfast without saying anything to anybody, when I came back I found they had watched me every minute (1 hour) for fear I would get into trouble with the bull ..... ____ threw a lot of cherries into my window tonight and I enjoyed quite a visit with him from my elevated position .... So chilly we kept a fire at school. Mr McKindly brought me and my things down to school this morning. I have begun boarding at Charlie Dickeys to night. They are young people and have a little girl about two years old, I like her very much .... Mrs Wilson showed me a wilderness of fancy work this morning, worsted work, crocheting, lace knitting, under clothes, bead and cardboard hanging baskets, hair wreaths, a colored wax bouquet, a beautiful white wax cross, and lots of other things .... After supper Doc and I took the spy glass and went up on the hill back of the house, Twas very smoky so we could watch the sun set through the glass .... Clarkie has been to Bradford with team, Father sold and delivered to Jackman 1200 bricks - the first brick sold from the new kiln, today. We have kept Georgie shut up in the house all day on account of his poison, he seems no better or worse to night ..... Commenced working for Susie Kemp today. She was not well enough to go into the shop so we had the goods taken into her sitting room. Nellie Corliss has got a settled lung fever, she is quite sick. They have telegraphed to Flo to come home .... Clarkie and Will finished work up to the Bobbin Factory this morning. Got home about 9. Clarkie wreasled with a William's up there this morning and hurt his back and side so he can hardly move, we say we are glad if it will learn him anything, he says it has for he will never wreasle again ..... Mama has washed, Aunt Julia has been visiting her this afternoon, six hats and two bonnets besides a lot of fancy goods sold in the shop today. Susie made me a present of a blue bonnet trimmed with white feathers .... Heard that another one of Perkins children (Waits River) died today of Diphtheria. Archie brought it from Barre a week or two ago, their baby died with it last week, another today, and another not expected to live through the day .... School commenced today, think I shall go so that I can watch the teacher for he is a beautiful man with blond side whiskers and a mustache ...... " Some of the names she mentions in the diary are: Em Darling ~ Edson Rowland ~ Mariette Goslin ~nJohn Miles ~ George Prescott ~ Frank & Arthur Davis ~ Capt. Chamberlin ~ Ada Guild ~ Maud Bell ~ Lester Mills ~ Charlie Dickey ~ Amanda Chapmans ~ Willie Burgess ~ Frank Pages ~ May Lawyer ~ Jennie Avery ~ Mrs Fulton ~ Jim Kemp ~ Charlie Darling ~ C. Dickeys ~ Nellie Corliss ~ Hattie Brown ~ L. Currier ~ Cora Huckins ~ Aunt Betsey Sawyer ~ Chas Carpender ~ Charlie Smith ~ Plummer Emerson ~ Frankie Dickey ~ Em Chase ~ Mrs. Lang Chase ~ Edgar Kinsman ~ Susie Kemp ~ Mrs Fulton ~ Annie Chase ~ Marietta Stearns ~ R.R. Fulton ~ Bell Abbot ~ Doc Fulton ~ Frank Thompson ~ Fred Prescott ~ Steve Fulton ~ Frank Rogers. Some of the places she mentions in the diary are: Chelsea ~ East Topsham ~ Ryegate ~ Bradford ~ Barre ~ Manchester ~ Waits River ~ Waitsfield ~ Rye Beach ~ Evansville.