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ELMWOOD, December 20, 18--

Daisy McDonald Thornton's journal, presented by my husband, Mr Guy

Thornton, ishesin it every day; and when I

asked hihts, and opinions,

and experiences It will be pleasant for you some time to look back upon

your early ress you have made since then,

and will help you to recall incidents you would otherwise forget A

journal fixes things in your mind, and I know you will enjoy it,

especially as no one is to see it, and you can talk to it freely as to a

friend"

That is what Guy said, and I wrote it right down to copy into the book

as a kind of preface or introduction I a

to keep a journal, and maybe I shall have Zillah keep it for s in s fixed, anyway I'd

rather they would be round loose, as they surely would, if I had not

Zillah to pick the

in back at the time when I was not married, and did not want to be,