Monday, April 6, 2015

Diary of Margaret Junkin Preston: February 3, 1863

Have been pleasing myself with a very rare occupation, today, which brings back my young days again; i. e. drawing a small crayon head. I happened to be not actually pressed with sewing, and so did not resist the strong impulse I felt to give my fingers a little treat, and substitute the crayon for the needle. But the children teased me so that it was the “pursuit of accomplishments under difficulties,” that I found myself illustrating.

SOURCE: Elizabeth Preston Allan, The Life and Letters of Margaret Junkin Preston, p. 159-60

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