Maud's boots, $3.00,
Vegetables, .12, Bread, .04 . . . Ribbons for victory, .40. To-day we have the
news of Lee's surrender with the whole remnant of his army. The city is alive
with people. All flags hung out — shop windows decorated — processions in the
street. All friends meet and shake hands. On the newspaper bulletins such
placards as “Gloria in excelsis Deo,” “Thanks be to God!” We all call it the
greatest day of our lives.
Apples, half-peck,
.50.
SOURCE: Laura E. Richards & Maud Howe Elliott, Julia
Ward Howe, 1819-1910, Large-Paper Edition, Volume 1, p. 219-20
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