Francis MacDonald Journal * Facsimile and Transcription
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        My Beloved Eliza,1
                    In order to afford
        you an insight into what you
        may expect during your voyage
5     accross the Atlantic, and to assist
        in breaking the motion monotony
        of a sea voyage{,} I take up
        pencil [and] paper to give you a
        daily account of what is doing{.}
10    It would be foreign to my purpose
        to say aught prior to the period
        of our parting. You are acquain-
        ted with it all. It was a severe
        pang, but it was softened by
15   the thought that we separated
        but to meet again. Yes Eliza
        I leave my native land only to
        provide for thee a home, and to
        place myself in a situation
20   whereby the wants of that home
        will be fully supplied so that it
        will be rendered as happy and
        as comfortable as possible. Well

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NOTES:

1.     Eliza Wallace (1829-1911) married Francis MacDonald in Brooklyn in 1850.

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