The day was so stormy we did not Dril nor have Dre[ss] perade I made a call at Mr Long & excepted a pressing invitation to take dinner, although I am not well & bad been to dinner before I made this call, but the large dish of Lettice, fine Redishes baked potatoes & beef stake ware not to be slited by one so modest as I, & I enjoyed the call verry much, next I called on a Mr Holcomb himself & Wife with two union Officers ware playing at cards I soon took my leave I feel better this evening
SOURCE: Edgar R. Harlan, Currator, Annals of Iowa, 3rd Series, Vol. 15, No. 2, October 1925, p. 108
