1851
Sunday April 27th Have had a bad head ache all day and
was not able to attend church Laid down and
slept until about two Oclock which relieved
me very much After church Miss Foss & self
called into Olivers and met Harriet there.
Sarah Lothrop spent the day there. This
evening commenced a letter to Pauline C Dean
It has been a very pleasant day
Perhaps all that riding around Easton yesterday was responsible for Evelina’s headache today. She had pushed herself on Saturday, and the jostling along the washboard roads in bright sunlight may have been a factor in her feeling ill today. That, or she was catching what Sarah Lothrop Ames had. She felt so poorly that she didn’t even try reading, which was often her refuge on a Sunday. Her remedy, just to lie down and sleep, made her feel much better. Sleep was probably a better cure than the Wistar’s Balsam she took a few weeks ago.
Evelina felt well enough in the afternoon to call next door to check on Sarah Ames. There, she and Orinthia bumped into Harriet Mitchell. Harriett was hopefully feeling more settled after her first week back in North Easton. Who was watching her children? Sarah Witherell?
Who is the Sarah Lothrop that Evelina mentioned as spending the day next door? She must have been a relative – a niece or cousin – of Sarah Lothrop Ames, who was still ailing.
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