The girls are going to have some tableaux Christmas… Ma would not let me #cw150

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The girls are going to have some tableaux Christmas… Ma would not let me #cw150

November 26, 2011 by civilianwartime

Friday November 26^th [1861]

I went Sunday morning for my scholars but they could not go. Annie Lea is back at school this week. I feel like myself now. We dance every day now. The girls are going to have some tableaux Christmas & wanted me to act, but Ma would not let me. I do not take much interest in the war news now our boys have got home. Emily is sick.

Source: Malinda Ray Diary, Anna Sutton Sherman Papers, North Carolina State Archives. See also David A. Ray Papers, Southern Historical Collection, UNC-Chapel Hill

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