Oct 3d Sunday We have all been to meeting to day
Mrs Norris Mr Ames & self came home at noon but did not
have a dinner cooked After meeting Frank carried Miss Linscott
& Orinthia to Bridgewater & Melinda & self went to Mothers and
called on Miss M J Alger while Frank went to carry them home
Mrs A[l]ger had her piano & played Horatio Jr is here came last night
More comings and goings today. Everyone went to church, of course, but afterwards dispersed in different directions. Frank Morton Ames obliged the young, single ladies in the group by driving them home to Bridgewater. While he headed east, Evelina and her friend Melinda Norris rode south to the family farm to visit the elderly Mrs. Gilmore. They also stopped to visit Miss M J Alger, the woman who would be giving piano lessons to Susie Ames and Emily Witherell. She, or her mother, played a piano for them.
Old Oliver reported that “this was a fair pleasant day for season Oakes came home from N. York las[t] night.” Oakes Angier stayed behind, on business or pleasure we don’t know. Evelina reported, as her father-in-law did not, that Horatio Ames Jr. was back for a visit. He was the son of Horatio Ames, a brother of Oakes and Oliver Jr. It’s unclear if Horatio Jr. was living in Boston at this point or was still in Connecticut at the family home there.
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