Francis MacDonald Journal * Facsimile and Transcription
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fortunate, but we are shortsighted[.] We do not know what is waiting us. Today it is raining heavy. I may say it is the first rain we have 5 had. Crowe says that putting all the dry days together that he had last voyage it would not amount to four. {N}ow it was a summer voyage, he having left Glasgow in 10 May. {H}e also says that he found passages about this season of the year better than earlier in the year. One o'clock. The wind is again foul, blowing strong and heavy 15 rain. Crowe is very anxious about his wife. {S}he was just beginning to feel the pains of labour when he left her at Greenock, she could not go to Glasgow. I trust she has been 20 safely delivered. Crowe always calls her “the dear creature.” This stormy day brings to my remembrance the stormy nights I used to spend at Carlton Court.64 [End of Page 35]
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