There is nothing new to-day. The weather is pleasant for the
season, the snow being all gone.
Custis has succeeded in getting ten pupils for his
night-school, and this will add $100 per month to our income—if they pay him.
But with flour at $200 per barrel; meal, $20 per bushel, and meat from $2 to $5
per pound, what income would suffice? Captain Warner (I suppose in return for
some writing which Custis did for him) sent us yesterday two bushels of
potatoes, and, afterwards, a turkey! This is the first turkey we have had
during our housekeeping in Richmond.
I rarely see Robert Tyler nowadays. He used to visit me at my
office. His brother John I believe is in the trans-Mississippi Department. My
friend Jacques is about town occasionally.
SOURCE: John Beauchamp Jones, A Rebel War Clerk's
Diary at the Confederate States Capital, Volume 2, p.
130
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