SATURDAY 9
A rainy morning but most of the day was rather pleasant. No particular news stirring. Spent an hour after dinner with Bro. at the office of Dr John W [Bulkley?] and his father Solomon [Bulkley?] talking of Williamstown people &c. Went down to Willards with Bro. and from there to the “National” to see Philip Dorsheimer. He had left on the 3.10 train. We got the evening NY papers. Called at “Kirkwoods” and came home about 9 o’clock and read the news till 11 o’clock and then went to bed.
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The three diary manuscript volumes, Washington during the Civil War: The Diary of Horatio Nelson Taft, 1861-1865, are available online at The Library of Congress.
