Sandusky, Ohio: church services; a 'Negro "Minstral"'; social affairs such as parties and dances; family

Sandusky, Ohio: Mr. Ingersoll's beautiful discourse on repentance; scripture quotes; visit to Camptown Chapel; the Fair; expresses love for her

Sandusky, Ohio: on sharing thoughts with her, such as truths of the "beautiful parable of the Prodigal Son"; sermon of Mr. Farr; scripture quotes; lengthy description of a performance of scenes -- "Rose fete" with comments on Clara, Lollie Mills, Connie Homer, Essie Mills, Frank Butler, Sophie Fitzhugh, Hannah, Jake Homer, Mary Osborne, and his namesake Charlie Johnson, "a little colored boy," and others; including Sallie Graham, Emma Marsh, Kitty Campbell, Emma Moss, George Maxwell, Lena Mills, Sallie Mills; "Taking the Oath"; "Ring of Cashiers," specifically "The Rose," with comments on Mary Osborne, Emma Marsh, Sallie Graham, Jessie Stern, and Clara; "The Dentistry Establishment," "Rustic Courtship," "Intercepted Letter," "The Belle of Orleans," "Rock of Ages," and "Mistletoe Bough" (scenes? from the "history of the great Sandusky sensations of 1866")

Sandusky, Ohio: parochial meeting; religious thought; poem to Longellow's "Waif"; comments on the temperament of a tailor and on having a tailor as a president [Andrew Johnson (1808-1875)]; longing for them to be together in marriage

Sandusky, Ohio: comments on the church sermon on the coming of the Lord by Mr. Farr; religious thoughts and trust in God; Dr. Bancroft, professor at the Theological Seminary at Gambier; her distrust of reverends and his thoughts of becoming one

Sandusky, Ohio: thankful to God for having her in his life; missing a gathering at Hannah's with Mary Radcliff, Ella Higgins, and Jay [Cooke, Jr.]; skating at Cedar Point; comments on writing in the fashion of Victor Hugo

At home: reassures her of his devotion to her; a gathering at the Latham's with the Misses Robertson, Latham, and Barney (Ella and Sallie) singing compositions of Mozart, Farmer, and Mercidanti; Mr. Farr

Sandusky, Ohio: Clara; a journey of Clara and Laura on Chestnut Street; thoughts on Laura's falling in love with various girls -- as a "Christian charity among the quieter sex"; Jay [Cooke, Jr.]; remembrance of a gift of a rosebud to her; marriage of Mary Osborne to a gentleman from Louisville, Kentucky; quiet Lenten season with services and lectures by Mr. Farr

Sandusky, Ohio: went to the Fair; prizes won by Allie Porter, Nettie Watherell, Clara, Sallie Reber, Mr. Reber, Charlie Bouton, and the G.A.R. Society

Sandusky, Ohio: thoughts of the coming June (the time of their marriage) for happiness; remembers their delightful talks and the happiness of their 'short & sweet' association; description of visit to Central Park and Broadway; visit to Laura's brother Pitt Cooke and Willie Pritchard in Brooklyn and a trip to 'Fulton Market' with them; visit to Aunt Mary's with Hal, Willie Pritchard, Mrs. Pitt, Mrs. Pritchard, and Townie Pritchard; heard Maggie Mitchell that evening; railroad and ferry rides home to Sandusky; church attendance with Mr. Farr and Jay Butler -- describes Easter service; singing the hymn; [ ] Farr's sermon; news of their engagement out

Sandusky, Ohio: trust in God, in her, and the future; discussion of patterns; Charles Olds; Jay Butler; Emma Marsh; Kitty Campbell; Luke Mills; Jay and Clara Moorehead; "Fort Whipple," Virginia where he was a Corporal in the 100 Days War

At home: patterns of animals for his mother's afghan; business getting brisk; description of scenery around Washington, D. C.; Laura's opal being found; comments on her performance of "The Cricket on the Hearth"; "Grand Army and Union League meetings; Charles Augustus; Hannah Marshall

Sandusky, Ohio: playing charades; arrangements for a concert with assistance from Mr. Andersen, Sallie Mills, and Sally Reber

Sandusky, Ohio: reminsces about their first meeting two years previous; arrangements for the concert and rehearsal that night

Sandusky, Ohio: in appreciation of her kindnesses; loving letter, expressing his feelings of love; Mrs. Barney, Ella, Sallie, "Grandma," [Jay Cooke], and Uncle Collie playing backgammon; ride and dance following night with Cora Brown; cancelled trip to the island, going to School Exhibition with his mother instead; Jay Butler; Martha Cooke; Lake Mills

Sandusky, Ohio: joy in receiving her letter; Georgia Moss; Jay Butler; conversation on housekeeping; their engagement; photograph of her carriage enclosed; romantic thoughts; a river adventure braved by Sallie [Cooke] and Laura; Martha Cooke

Gibraltar, Put-In-Bay: Clara Hepburn; boat ride to "Gibraltar, Put-In-Bay," boat ride around the bay; playing croquet; prayers and sermon conducted by Mr.Taylor; bay ride during which a German man with an accordion entertained; description of the water, air, and moonlight -- the atmosphere -- of the bay ride; Dr. [Thomas Hewlings?] Stockton (1808-1868) suffering and thoughts concerning this matter; Sunday church prayers by Mr. Peck; humorous comment on his musical aptitude in comparison to George Morgan; description of activities and music from the steamers by the wharf; romantic thoughts

Sandusky, Ohio: attended mass meeting held in the [South Mansfield Station] and Newark Railroad Passing Depot which was addressed by Benjamin [Franklin] Wade and N. C. McFarland; Aunt Martha [Cooke]; proceedings of last night's meeting during which he was chosen secretary

Sandusky, Ohio: Aunt Martha [Cooke]; cousin Dora and Aunt Sarah [Moorhead?] train trip to Sandusky; Lake Mills; visit to Aunt Caldwell's

Sandusky, Ohio: religious overtones concerning their love and relationship; Lake Mills; Jake Hosmer; lottery drawings for prizes; Fishers Hall a gambling hole; sermons from Dr. Bancroft and Mr. Fullerton, Presbyterian minister; vote of township ticket; Kittie Campbell; Theo Hosmer; the Fair; George Thomas lecture on 'Sign boards'; her report of the Japanese visit to her [incomplete letter]

Sandusky, Ohio: Jay [Cooke, Jr.] and Clara; "closed up entirely at the Bank so that now I am through -- there forever -- I guess -- I must make a few more calls this P. M. & then I shall be out of that business & entirely a man of ease without a thing in the world on my hands --"; visit to Mrs. George Anderson on her fifteenth wedding anniversary

The Office: planning a trip to Cleveland, Ohio and offers to pick up Laura if she is coming through

--: reading [The Chronicles of the] Schonberg-Cotta Family [by Elizabeth Rundle Charles], commenting on it as "the most useful -- truthful -- interesting & simply beautiful book" he ever read; determined to meet Laura in Cleveland, Ohio; Miss Horstman; an evening dancing party; big fire consumed the Marsh's Plaster Mill; choir singing in church; Mr. Farr of the church; his own successor in the office

Ogontz "Library," [Chelten Hills, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania]: choir meeting; stories of Mr. Rickerts; notes from Nennie and John M. Bronaugh, Sallie [Cooke], H. A. Rickert with a sketch; locks of hair

Ogontz 'Chinese' Room: Kittie Tryvilian; Jim Bingham; [Jay Cooke] her father at the office and home; [John W.] Sexton, George [Thomas]; Mr. Rickert playing piano in the parlor; Della Coles; describes drive in the buggy with the Cooke family; drowning of local boy, the son of Isiaah Drain, in the Penn Mill Creek; playing billiards; Mr. and Mrs. Appleton, Mr. and Mrs. Thomas, Willie Newton, Mr. and Mrs. Parvins all at house; Jay Cooke conducted private business conversations at house; prayers and hymns; ride in the "Omnibus"

The Office: Laura in Detroit, Michigan; [Jay Cooke], Jay [Cooke, Jr.]; George [Thomas], Willie Newton, Mr. Rickert on train together; doctrinal discussion on "Stubbs & Boggs" [incomplete letter]

-- : Harry Bingham: Mrs. Barney's afflicted state; John at Ida and Ginnie Thomas'; reading by Miss [Harriet McEwen] Kimball (1834-1917) of [Friedrich] Schiller's Mary Stuart; visit to Birdsells for strawberries and cream; moving to new quarters on 9th Street at the Aldens; Eckstein Nagle & Company; spending the weekend at Ogontz with Mr. Bingham, John, Willie Newton [Note: William Wilberforce Newton (1843-1914) married Emily Stevenson Cooke on November 16, 1870, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania], and Mr. Rickert

Ogontz "Chinese room": discussion of a conversation on women by Mr. Bingham, John, and himself; Willie Newton; Miss Horstman; playing billiards; activities at Ogontz; Richard Thomas; Mr. Appleton; Mr. Rickert; Mr. Parvins; Emma Faris; Sunday school and church services; "poney carriage" ride to Branchtown; Maimie Brock

Ogontz "Chinese room": describes horseback ride on "Miss 'Kitten'" with Tom -- saw the Brocks, "Rockwood," the Parvins, and the Gimps; dinner at the Continental; piano and flute performance by Charlie and Tom; religious thoughts; new lodgings at Mrs. Alden's

The Office: walked to Depot with Tom, Joe, and James Rowland; [John W.] Sexton; a matter concerning Sallie Cooke and "the club"; Laura in Gibraltar

Ogontz: croquet club assembled for games then discussion of the proceedings of the business meeting in the parlor; George Thomas; Mr. and Mrs. George C. Thomas, Jr., Mr. and Mrs. Henry Butcher, Mr. and Mrs. Jay Cooke, Jr. all new members; Miss Rowland; Mr. Bingham

Ogontz "The end room": Nennie, James Rowland, Miss Henderson; description of "poney carriage" ride -- to J. B. Moorhead, Addie Thomas, Mrs. Wright, Shoemakertown; played backgammon

Ogontz "Library": Nennie, Mrs. Bingham, Mr. Pollard; rode in the "Germantown"; George and Ida Thomas, Miss Warwick, Tom Parvin; trip on Saturday with Ginnie and Caddie Moorhead, the Horstmans and their cousin Miss Mary, Charlie Sharpless; [Sandusky] dance, waltz, gallopade; Jenny Rowland, Clara Horstman, Caddie Rowland played piano; Sallie Cooke; sleeve buttons to Caldwells; Mr. Bingham

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: carriage ride to "Bloomfield," Limekein turnpike beyond Waverly Heights, to the York Road, with John, Ida, Ginnie, and Nennie; George Thomas; Harry; Mr. Hawkins of the macadamized Chapel; sleeve buttoms from Caldwells; Mr. Brazier of Caldwells

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: Mrs. Alden; met Mr. Evans, insurance agent who knew Mr. Bingham; Sallie Cooke; George Thomas

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: Washington Gilpin, Jay and Joe Shoemaker; [Jay Cooke]

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: [George C.] Thomas; Jay [Cooke, Jr.]; played billiards; Clara; plan for the wedding; Joe Shoemaker, Charlie Dunn; Charlie Dennis [Note: Charles B. Dennis (uncle?)]

Jay Cooke & Co. Bankers, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: Jay [Cooke, Jr.]; invitation to tea with Mrs. Brock, Charlie Dennis, and others

Ogontz "Library": Jay [Cooke, Jr.], Emma Ferris, Lollie Thomas, Minnie Parvin, Joe Shoemaker rode from church in the "Omnibuss"; discussion of Sunday School and Mr. Boulton preaching; Lake Mills; elaborate dinner menu; walk around grounds to stable, mausoleum, greenhouses, the old mill; saw Joe and Jay Shoemaker, Minnie Parvins, Lollie Thomas; Mrs. Brock's tea; Miss Warwick after church; Joe Shoemaker playing the organ

"The Cedars": Mr. Shoemaker, Joe and Bennie's house, the Cooke's old home where Laura spent her childhood; Mr. [George C.] Thomas, George [Thomas]; [John W.] Sexton; Joe [Shoemaker?]; visit to Ogontz; met Miss Warwick, James Rowland, Tom [Parvin] and Charlie Parvin on the train

Jay Cooke & Co. Bankers, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: Mary Horstman, Mrs. Jacobs, Mrs. Wright, Charlie, Louise all at Ogontz along with George, Addie, Ginnie, Jay Cooke, Jr., and visitors Horace Lippincott and Mr. Hart; orchestra and playing billiards

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: family matter concerning his mother, Mrs. Barney, and Laura; advises her to hear Dr. Keiffer

Jay Cooke & Co. Bankers, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: busy in office, [John W.] Sexton

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: loving thoughts, missing her; Philadelphia "is thronged with people -- 'the boys in blue' & others who have come to see the doings -- the Parade this afternoon was very fine & it took over two hours for the procession to pass the office -- to night they parade again -- then there will be speeches -- fireworks -- illuminations -- rows -- music & everything interesting..."; matter concerning his mother and her second marriage [to Dr. Keiffer]; death of baby Maggie Fahnestock; Jay [Cooke, Jr.]; sent black silk dress; visit to Ogontz

Ogontz "The Chinese room": studying Sunday school lesson; Clara, Jay [Cooke, Jr.]; reference to "Friday was the great day of the 'Boys in blue'" -- his own account of some of the activities of October 2nd; their upcoming marriage; Dr. Newton's tale of the doings of his party at Gibraltar -- 'the trial,' 'the convention' or 'their celebration'; Dr. Newton's sermon, church; his mother and Dr. K[eiffer]

Ogontz: Jay [Cooke, Jr.], Clara; conservatory; Tom Parvin

Ogontz: Clara, Jay [Cooke, Jr.]; playing baseball; hearing orchestrion; Charlie Parvin; dinner menu; playing football; Tom [Parvin]; going to Jenkintown for a political meeting in the hay wagon; invitation to "Bloomfield," the Thomas home

Bloomfield: to Jenkintown to the political meeting in the hay wagon; Harry Birchall, Mary Bigar, Tom [Parvin], Bob [Parvin], Charlie Parvin, Charlie Dunn; Caddie Rowland; Harry Howe in "the procession of torch lighter bearers otherwise -- 'the Invincibles'" & also Harry Rodgers; Miss Carr; Lollie Thomas, Mary McKee, and Mrs. Tillis

Annie Warwick, James Rowland; [John W.] Sexton, Jay [Cooke, Jr.]; playing billiards

Jay Cooke & Co. Bankers, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: asks result of her talk with her father [Jay Cooke]; Mr. [George C.] Thomas; Mrs. Appleton; Joe S[hoemaker] now choir leader

The Parsonage: Mr. and Mrs. Appleton; Miss Boulton; describes curiosities collected by Appletons, including inkhorn, brass lamp, items from Palestine; Will Moorhead; Appleton's servants -- little "Kattie" who reminds him of 'the Marchioness' in 'The old curiosity shop'; Mr. Atkinson preached eloquently and beautifully and taught her father's [Jay Cooke] Bible class; Sunday School; the Cookes' feelings toward their daughter Laura's impending marriage to Charlie; death of Mrs. Brock's brother in Haiti by yellow fever; Clara, Jay [Cooke, Jr.]

Ogontz: Jay [Cooke, Jr.] and Clara; the Rowlands, Miss Carr, Tom Parvin, Joe Shoemaker; her father's [Jay Cooke] blessing on their marriage; Caddie [Rowland?]

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: Mr. Bingham, [John W.] Sexton; card from his mother and the wedding cards of the new Mrs. Charles Hubbard of Sandusky, Ohio

Office of Jay Cooke & Co. Bankers, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: looking forward to being married in the spring; her black silk dress admired; love poems of Sir Phillip Sidney; tea at Elwell's; Clara's new house

Jay Cooke & Co. Bankers, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: played two games of billiards with Harry; [Jay Cooke] meeting with Mr. Wikeson in the Library at Ogontz; [Dorothea Allen Cooke], Nennie, Mr. [George C.] Thomas; playing backgammon; boxes of laces and trimmings for Laura's bridal dress; doing well in the office; Willie Newton

Jay Cooke & Co. Bankers, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: work day discouraging

1622 Spruce Street: James Bingham and Chet Moss at the Continental; [John W.] Sexton and settling cash at the office; Harry Delaney; three yards of silk from Mr. Thomas' store; W[illia]m [White] Harding (1830- 1889), publisher of the Philadelphia Inquirer , at the office inquiring for Jay [Cooke, Jr.] and [Jay Cooke] -- rumor of Jay Cooke's being telegraphed to go to Washington, D. C. to see about accepting the Secretary of the Treasury; Laura attending the inauguration of President [Ulysses S. Grant]. [Note: Hugh McCulloch was the Secretary of Treasury until March 1869; Ulysses S. Grant was inaugurated on March 4, 1869]

Chicago, Illinois: letter to his wife and five-month-old daughter; [J. B. T.] Marsh, Mr. Turner's brother-in-law in Branchtown to make the address to their S[unday] S[chool]; working in the offices of The Advance; dinner at the 'Palmer'; driving all over the city in a carriage; going to the city on the city cars -- went on the West Side to hear Robert Colyer, impressive services, and interesting sermon; describes church; visit to two Sunday Schools -- met Mrs. Bush, Mr. L. M. Brook's little sister; Edward M. Davis, [Jay Cooke], J. Alfred Townsend, and C.T.C.

[Letterhead of] Editorial Rooms of The Advance , Chicago, Illinois: description of the great fire which destroyed Chicago; city half in flames -- courthouse burnt to ground; walked to see fire, stopped at 'Palmer House'; office of the Advance Company totally destroyed; Mrs. Turner's house on Wabash Avenue burned down; the Post Office in flames and destroyed as well as nearly all the prominent buildings -- the Fremont Hotel, the Union Central Depot, the 'Palmer House,' Robert Colyer's magnificent church; "poor women...with nothing in the world left of ruined men, homes & business..." and "the hundreds of thieves walking off with their plunder in their hands or arms..."; requests the raising of funds

Charles D. Barney & Co. Bankers and Brokers, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: John, Harry; Julie Bullitt; invitation to a bachelor party

Charles D. Barney & Co. Bankers and Brokers, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: John, [Jay Cooke], Charlie Butler, Clara R[ ], Jay [Cooke, Jr.], Ned, and Eddie McGaw to Trenton for a new horse

-- : death of dog "Jipprus"; [business] trip with John and James Bingham; Ella [Barney]'s health; [John W.] Sexton, W[illia]m [G. Moorhead]; and [Jay Cooke] at the office

Long Island Sound, On board the Newport : destination Mr. Dodge's summer home, the "Farm," near Narragansett Beach, Rhode Island; describes the great confusion caused when the steamer collided with a scow; onboad with Sallie [Cooke] and parents [Jay and Dorothea Allen Cooke]; describes Mr. Dodge's house and surrounding area; loveliness of Ogontz; sailing on the ship; read Granville de Vigne and Strathmore [by Ouida] -- comments on them as horrid and wicked -- given Idalia as a gift

-- : on Put-In Bay Island, near Peach Orchard Point; discourse on her life's freedom from trial and tribulations; read John Greenleaf Whittier's "Mogg Megone"

Erie, [Pennsylvania]: unhappy to be there, wanting to be home, missing Charles; parents like him but want them to be sure of themselves

The Cedars: had her picture taken at Wenderoth & Taylor; comments on the "high spirits" of Charles D. Barney; Allie Porter; Jay B[utler]; Oliver Evans

The Cedars: [John W.] Sexton; Jay [Cooke, Jr.], [Jay Cooke]; cousin Emily [Allen] reading Punchinello aloud to Harry; Sallie [Cooke] and [Dorothea Allen Cooke] playing backgammon; describes the library at the Cedars; read Charles Dickens' The Tale of Two Cities and David Copperfield

The Cedars: Emma Allen of Kentucky; her kitten Gipsy; Oliver Evans; Barnaby Rudge; entered at Miss Carr's as a full scholar; matinee at the Academy of Music to hear [Verdi's] Trovatore ; how glorious it is to be a Christian; Theo's return to St. Louis, Missouri; Jay Butler

-- : spent Saturday afternoon visiting by carriage driven by "George," the coachman; Anna Commerford, Dora, Aunt Sarah, and Sallie [Cooke]

Brooklyn, New York: devastation over cancellation of Charlie's visit; church at St. Ann's in Brooklyn; Uncle Pitt [Cooke] recommendation to brother [ ] Cooke for Mr. Mills; Mr. Farr's sermon "Valley of Ach[ ] and taking charge of Grace Church; Lena Mills; William Bott; [Henry Ward] Beecher sermon in the evening. [Note: Henry Ward Beecher (1813-1887), clergyman, at Plymouth Congregational Church, Brooklyn, New York, 1847-1887]

Ogontz: appreciation for a gift handcrafted by Charlie's sister and mother; discourse of love for each other; Cora Badger; [John Philip] Newman's sermon in evening; [Charles Edward] Cheney's sermon in morning; party at Mrs. Barlow Moorhead's with Lena Haddock, William Farr, and others; gift of little book Thoughts for Weary Hours -- quotes from book; Ella [Barney]. [Note: John Philip Newman (1826-1899), bishop; Charles Edward Cheney (1836-1916), rector of Christ Church, Chicago, Illinios]

Ogontz: practicing in music room; festivities on Valentine's Day -- "Sandusky dance," Sandusky tunes by "eight piece & piano" band; Gertrude Farr, William Farr's sister; Dr. [Heman] Dyer's sermon in morning; Dr. Bancroft acceptance of a professorship in the Divinity School of West Philadelphia; death of her sister on February 19, 1865 -- Mrs. George Thomas; death of George Mears on February 1, 1866. [Note: Heman Dyer (1833-1900), clergyman, New York, New York]

Ogontz: visit from Katie and Harry Howe of Germantown, [Ohio]; thirteen inches of snow; Mary Osborne's engagement; Louise's characteristics; sermons of Dr. Clayton and Mr. Tiffany of Germantown; Ginnie Thomas; went to church at Holy Trinity; Lena Haddock; going to visit relatives in Kentucky and then on to Sandusky, Ohio; Jay Butler

Ogontz: returned from Washington, D. C. with Jay [Cooke]; description of excursion to the "Grand Falls"; visit by General [Ulysses S.] Grant's wife [Julia T. Dent Grant] and daughter; Mary Barber; Jay Butler; Kittie Campbell; Mary Patterson; "Cricket on the Hearth" rehearsals; Mrs. William Farr's reception with John Butler as fourth groomsman

Kentucky Military Institute: Theo Hosmer; describes beautiful scenery of Kentucky; to travel to the Mammoth Cave; officers and cadets gentlemanly

Kentucky Military Institute: uniforms remind of the old war; describes the actions involved in the inspection of students' rooms; attended one of the societies literary and debating; changed travel plans to the Mammoth Cave; cousin Sallie and Howard; comments on general activities at the institute; traveling to Sandusky, Ohio

Gibraltar: discourse on their love and engagement; Fannie's funeral

Ogontz: Cora Badger; George Thomas; Eva Bradley; Mr. and Mrs. Appleton, the new pastor and his wife; Rosa Birchett; Kittie [Campbell]

Brooklyn, New York: turning eighteen; Louise; Townsend; Sallie Mills; Caroline; visit to Narragansett, Rhode Island

Echo Farm, Near Fall River, [Massachusetts]: ride in a three-seated wagon without a cover or backs to the seats; drive to Fall River; Mary Marchant; describes scenery on long drive towards Newport, Rhode Island and along the shores of Narragansett Bay, Rhode Island; going to spend the day on Mr. Dodge's yacht Silvie

Ogontz: servant Maggie Edmonson keeping her company while the family is away; plans to go to Willow Grove one evening; Ginnie and Richard Thomas; Tom and Charlie Parvin; [Jay Cooke] hiring Tom Parvin for a position in the office; discussion of books Frederick [the Great] and his Family and Frederick [the Great] and his Court

Mr. Bingham; Dorothea Allen Cooke, Jay Cooke, Jay Cooke, Jr.; rumor of Jay Butler and Ella Taylor engagement; slight feeling of depression

Ogontz: rumor of engagement of Vannie Durberrow; Mr. Appleton spoke at preparatory prayer meeting; Baptism of twelve children; Mr. Bingham and Dora's relationship; cousin Emily [Allen] and Nennie indisposed; John and Clara Horstman's relationship

Ogontz: Dora in Sandusky, Ohio; gentlemen visitors -- Uncle Harry [Henry David Cooke?], Uncle Pitt [Cooke], Mr. [James] Bingham, John Bingham, Uncle William [Moorhead], and Mr. White; description of the unusual Mr. White; going to Dr. Flagg the dentist; her cousin Emmie [Emily] Allen suffering from chronic rheumatism; Charlie's being appointed secretary at a meeting; Kate Farr, John Bingham, Mr. [James] Bingham, Jay [Cooke, Jr.], Dorothea Allen Cooke, and herself going to Sandusky, Ohio; Jay getting a director's car to go as far as Cleveland or Mansfield, Ohio

Gibraltar: croquet with Harry; cousin Emma [Emily Allen]

Gibraltar: [Jay Cooke] and Mrs. McMeens playing backgammon

Gibraltar: Jay and Clara; Aunt Sarah [Cooke Moorhead], Dora, and Sallie Mills visiting

Gibraltar: fireworks night before; new books and supplies at Sunday School

Gibraltar: [Jay Cooke], Jay [Cooke, Jr.] and Hal Cooke fishing all day; going fishing and on a picnic to Middle Island; putting sample of cologne on cards to distribute to his mother and grandmother

Gibraltar: Charlie's impending visit and arrival on the Star

The Cedars: visit with Dorothea Allen Cooke to Aunt Sarah's [Cooke Moorhead]; Uncle William [Moorhead], [Jay Cooke], and Jay [Cooke, Jr.] away; "meteoric shower" previous night; visitors George Thomas, Anna Commerford, Caddie Moorhead, and Cora and Mary Badger; Ginnie Thomas, Jay [Cooke, Jr.], Joe Shoemaker, and herself watched meteor shower from the tower; description of Cora Badger; copy of a ballad "Under the Daisies!" [by Harrison Millard]

St. Nicholas: comments on his letter of March 11th; Dorothea Allen Cooke, Aunt Lizzie, Clara, and Jay [Cooke, Jr.]; returning to Ogontz by train

Ogontz: visit by Miss Rubeau; took lesson at the school from Miss Merino; [Jay Cooke]; practice on her harp; describes beautiful sunset; Sallie [Cooke] at Ginnie Thomas' house; Tom [Parvin] and [Jay Cooke] playing billiards; visit by Ms. Lozier to treat her father's [Jay Cooke] carbuncle on his face

Ogontz: her wedding present to Charlie -- solid silver-gold lined sauce boat for $36.00 from Caldwell's; reading The Pillar of Fire; [or, Israel in Bondage] by [Joseph Holt Ingraham]; going to Dr. Flagg, the dentist, with John and Nennie; Ella's [Barney] health

Ogontz: sewing at Mrs. Thomas' for the Fair with Nennie, Sallie [Cooke], Mrs. Appleton, Cassie Brock, and Cornelia Grayson; her parents [Jay Cooke] and [Dorothea Allen Cooke], Mr. Appleton, Joe Shoemaker, Mrs. And Mrs. George C. Thomas, Mr. Thomas, Dr. Clayton and his daughter, Mrs. Aubin, and Tom Parvin arrived; plans for tomorrow include fair work, school work, harp lesson, and prayer meeting; Ella's [Barney] health

Ogontz: practice at the church with Jay [Cooke, Jr.]; Sunday School, sermon on the origin of "Confirmation"; group giving a concert Tuesday; Clarke family visiting; baptism and confirmation; Ella's [Barney] health

Ogontz: rode on new train on the North Penn[sylvania] with Nennie and [Jay Cooke] to the city; stopped at the office and met John [Butler?], [John W.] Sexton, and Tom Parvin; went to Van Harlingen's; visited Clara Horstmann; includes pen-and-ink sketch of self; cousin Emily [Allen]; Christina Dodge

Ogontz: confirmation of eighteen by Bishop [Alfred] Lee of Delaware; Ella's [Barney] improved health; anticipation awaiting the visit of Charlie. [Note: Alfred Lee (1807-1887), the Episcopal Bishop of Delaware]

Williamsport, [Pennsylvania]: her feelings following her departure

Biddle House, Detroit, Michigan: dirty hotel slight improvement over Russel House; Aunt Cora and Carrie

Detroit, Michigan: attended St. Paul's Church and heard an unusual sermon; hard day's journey from Niagara on two sections of the "Pullman's Palace Hotel Cars" which were comfortable; Jay [Cooke, Jr.], Sallie [Cooke], Cassie, and cousin Emily [Allen]

Gibraltar: left Detroit, Michigan in the morning, on the way down the Detroit River, stopped on board the Jay Cooke, a large steamer; arrival of [Jay Cooke], [Dorothea Allen] Cooke, Harry and Mary

Gibraltar: going to St. Paul's and Lake Superior with papa [Jay Cooke] and mamma [Dorothea Allen Cooke]; illness of Ella [Barney] and Charlie's mother; comments on [ ] Kemble ? [Harriet McEwen Kimball] and a book on Lady Jane Grey and Mary Stuart; Jay Butler; cousin Emily [Allen]

Sandusky, Ohio: visit to Charlie's mother, Sallie [Barney?], Aunt Martha, and his grandmother; Ella [Barney] and her severe illness; saw "Drummer Boy!" at Norman Hall

Gibraltar: cousin Emily [Allen], Mrs. Appleton, Sallie, Clara, Cassie into lake for a swim; Ella's [Barney] illness; engagement of Richard and Clara H[orstmann]

Ogontz: dancing party at Aunt Sarah's [Cooke Moorhead]; Sallie [Cooke], Emily [Allen], and [Dorothea Allen Cooke] going to Cape May, New Jersey

Congress Hall: describes travel and accommodations; sending a birthday gift of sleeve studs

Cape May, New Jersey: visitors Clara Reeves and Carrol Tyson; her love for him; Clara and Katie Sagers; bathing in the slightly strong surf; Mary Edward having rooms in the "Blue Pig"; steriopticon exhibition on the lawn

Cape Island, New Jersey: tea with Mrs. E. W. Clarke at her cottage; having a "Hop" in the dining room; Mrs. Clarence Clarke; taking a walk with Sallie [Cooke] up the beach and back by the Columbia House; playing "Champagne Charlie" for a gallop at the "Hop"; attending Episcopl services with Sallie; Heber Newton and family coming

Cape May, New Jersey: describes the "loveliest view of the sea"; bath with no surf as the tide was very low -- good for swimming and floating; going for a drive on the beach; Ginnie Rowland and Jay [Cooke, Jr.]

Congress Hall: children's hop tonight to be unusually pretty; Mr. Evans; concern over Charlie's illness; others gone to Tenpin Alley; ate delicious pears, peaches, nectarines, and sugar plums; higher tide and more surf for bath; evening activities include riding and playing croquet

Cape May, New Jersey: describes view of the Atlantic Ocean from her porch; [Jay Cooke] and Mr. Bingham out fishing; reproachful of Charlie's Sunday activities

Williamsport, Pennsylvania: met Joe S[hoemaker] at Quacake Junction; Mrs. Moorhead and Carrie; cousin Emily [Allen], Sallie, and Mary Patterson; Harry and Joe Shoemaker; Dorothea Allen Cooke, Aunt Cora, and herself in same rooms; sadness at his departure; copied some of her "Serving Children's" names in her book; Mr. Powell's wedding; fantasies about her own wedding; Great Western Railway Company ticket

Pullman Hotel Cars between Elmira and Rochester, New York: describes scenery from Williamsport, Pennsylvania, along Seneca Lake; news of the presidential competition between [Ulysses S.] Grant and [Horatio] Seymour; quotes Hiwatha; arrival at Congress Hall, Rochester, and waiting to leave for Niagara

Pullman Hotel Cars: left Niagara and passing through Canada all day; pamphlet for Pullman's Hotel Car Great Central Route

Onboard the Jay Cooke : enroute to Gibraltar on the Detroit River; discusses the Jay Cooke as a new steamer on the line

Gibraltar: discussion of wedding plans; spent last evening engaged with fancy-work, etc.; excellent sermon by Mr. Weldon; her love for him; [Jay Cooke] and Will Moorhead to arrive following day

Gibraltar: arrival of the General Lyon with [Jay Cooke], cousin Will Moorhead], John Butler, and James Bingham; men then went on a hunting expedition to Middle Island and Point au Pillee; playing croquet; making a black silk cravat for him

Gibraltar: playing croquet; hearing Charles Dickens' prettiest "Christmas Stories"; describes view of the Lake and Middle Bass Island; Charlie [Charles B.] Dennis

Gibraltar: Will [Moorhead] reading Dickens aloud; Will, Aunt Cora, cousin Emily [Allen], and herself went rowing and had a game of tenpins swung on a gate; John left for Sandusky, Ohio on the Jay Cooke ; playing game of croquet; [Jay Cooke] and Will [Moorhead] are fishing; Sallie Mills

Gibraltar: Mamma [Dorothea Allen Cooke] and Papa [Jay Cooke] postponing her trip to Sandusky, Ohio; General Butler and the Trustees of Soldier's Homecoming; wanting Sallie [Barney] to visit; cold and blustery, white caps in the bay; Mamma and Papa out fishing; Aunt Lizzie and Aunt Cora on a rowing expedition, stranded on Squaw Harbor; the County Fair; comments on Charles being at the Cedars; death of little Maggie Fahnestock and of her own little sister Carrie at the same age

Gibraltar: row of four miles to the "West Dock" and back; [Jay Cooke] and Will [Moorhead] fishing all day; [Dorothea Allen Cooke], Aunt Lizzie [Moorhead], and cousin Emily [Allen] started out in the Piscatoribus Sacrum ; Aunt Cora, Sallie, and Carrie [Moorhead] also in their boats in the bay; Aunt Cora reading aloud Charles Dickens' Golden Mary , "a pitiful story of shipwreck & danger at sea"; discusses characteristics of Carrie Moorhead; relationship between Mrs. Barney and Dr. Keiffer

Sandusky, Ohio: hearing the church bells before going to church; Sallie [Barney]; comments on the choir which included Mrs. Frank Moss, soprano, Georgie Moss, alto, and a fine tenor and bass; Mr. Farr's sermon; discussion with Mrs. Barney on the matter of Dr. Keiffer and the future; went to the fair-grounds and saw some fine racing [horses or dogs?]; describes Dr. Keiffer's physical appearance and his mannerisms; going to church with John Butler; comments on Dr. Keiffer and his intentions toward Mrs. Barney

Sandusky, Ohio: going home in Evening Star; Sallie Mills; others' positive comments on the new minister [Dr. Keiffer]; John Butler giving a dance on Wednesday night

Gibraltar: fishing all day with cousin Emily [Allen], Aunt Lizzie Moorhead, Nennie, Mrs. McMeens, and Aunt Mary; dinner on Middle Island, carried by the revenue cutter Sherman ; [Jay Cooke] received word that General [John Henry] Martindale (1815-1881) and his daughter and Governor Smythe and his wife are visiting; Sallie Barney

Gibraltar: Mrs. McMeen's bad disposition; activities including sewing, singing and playing piano; [Jay Cooke] and Will [Moorhead] on tug to the peninsula to shoot squirrels; their marriage in the spring; Fannie Osborne, Leiscester Hubbard, and George Hubbard [incomplete]

Gibraltar: Miss Martindale, Major DeKay (General Butler's secretary), Mrs. Smythe, General Butler, General [John Henry] Martindale, and Governor Smythe arrived on the Jay Cooke from Detroit, Michigan; [Dorothea Allen Cooke], Mr. Gunkill [Lewis B. Gunckel (1826-1903)] of Dayton, Ohio, and Judge [Hugh Lenox] Bond (1828-1893) of Baltimore, Maryland arrived on the Evening Star ; comments on some of the guests; plans to go to Europe in the spring

-- : planning for their wedding to be in the spring; [Mrs. Barney] and Sallie

Sandusky, Ohio: at cousin Caroline's for dinner; Mrs. Barney; riding; wearing new black silk dress; improvement of cousin Jay [Butler]; kittens deserted by mother having to be drowned; church in morning, excellent sermon from Mr. Farr; Mary Barber in choir again; Dr. Keiffer preaching in evening; her new room at Ogontz

Sandusky, Ohio: visitors [Jay Cooke], [Dorothea Allen Cooke], cousins Will [Moorhead], Emily, and Harry; [Jay Cooke] and Will [Moorhead] going to "Club house" for duck shooting; berating Charlie at length for "kissing promiscuously" in the light of their relationship

Sandusky, Ohio: their love for each other, their relationship, and their engagement and upcoming marriage; played a game of "Authors": a [Republican] procession with fine transparencies and a splendid band of music; Mrs. Barney; Dr. Keiffer; going to Detroit, Michigan in the Jay Cooke ; party for children at Aunt Mary's

Sandusky, Ohio: Sallie [Barney] returning to Gibraltar with her; visited Mrs. Barney, Sallie [Barney] and Aunt Martha

Gibraltar: playing croquet, rowing, playing the piano; festival for the benefit of the church attended by [Jay Cooke], [Dorothea Allen Cooke], Uncle William, Will [Moorhead], Kennedy Moorhead, and herself

Gibraltar: Sallie B[arney] roasting chestnuts with Sallie [Cooke]; playing croquet; rowing -- describes the scenery on the lake and relates a story of the wind and rain disrupting the taking of a photograph of everyone in their boats; [Jay Cooke] and Kennedy Moorhead on fishing excursion; leaving for Detroit, Michigan on the Jay Cooke; Mrs. McMeens and Durham having plans for a "fete champetre" on the lower end of the [Put-In-Bay] Island; played games of "Pussy wants a corner" and "Proverbs"

-- : feeling blue over their not being together; going to a concert to hear among others Madam Pareba, who is said to sing as well as Jenny Lind, and Mr. N. B. Mills, a celebrated performer

-- : rejoicing in the streets over the election [of Ulysses S. Grant and Schuyler Colfax as president and vice-president]

Sandusky, Ohio: left O. Y. R. Station for Elmira, New York, in the drawing room car accompanied by John, Sallie, Clara, Minnie Parvin, and Mr. Bingham to Bethlehem, Pennsylvania; describes travel; their children, Dolly and [ ] with her; death of Burton Spencer's wife following childbirth; Lollie Mills gravely ill

Sandusky, Ohio: Sallie's uncomfortable condition; funeral of Burton Spencer's wife; Jay [Cooke, Jr.] and Mollie; went to the Fair grounds; saw Lizzie Moss and husband Jay Butler, the Libby Hubbards, and Julia Radcliffe Cogswell; activities of their daughter Dolly; tea at Aunt Mary Cooke's; visit to the Farm; Aunt Selina Milliman and daughters Grace and Fanny visiting; baby Bessie needing to be nursed; leaving for Gibraltar the next day; Louise expecting Theo

Gibraltar, Lake Erie, Ohio: [Jay Cooke] met them at Middle Bass with a tug; their daughter Dolly

Social; Sallie's [Cooke] 15th birthday

Ill with diptheria for several weeks; visit by Frank Porter who also went to the seminary to see Hannah and Emma Moss

Apparently to CDB while a soldier serving his country

Expresses congratulations on his engagement to Laura E. Cooke; praises characteristics of Laura and Charles; encourages him with the new position in Philadelphia, mentioning his qualities, experience and talent

Visit to ruins, Caesar's Palace; offers a list of relics collected, along with each place of origin and an historical anecdote

Has arranged a position for him in their Philadelphia office, offering him "chances for gaining a perfect knowledge of [ ] kind of Banking" as well as future positions of trust, in order to aid him "in attaining a respectable & honorable standing..." for the sake of his daughter [Laura E. Cooke] and his friend [Charles D. Barney]

Planning a discussion with his mother, Mrs. Barney, when in Sandusky, Ohio

Re: her 15th birthday; social

Comments on [John Daniel] Imboden cutting up all sorts of capers down his way; news of Jay Smith and his return to the Army; report of William B. Rice from the front: Jay Butler well, Ed Pomeroy killed; Major or Lt. Col. B. B. McDonald, the "gopher" of Libby Prison, hated by the boys; Col. Kirby, commanding the Brigade, well-liked; Will Rice saw Brewer Smith who was well; Brigadier General Harker mortally wounded; General Davis division lost terribly; Jay Butler slightly wounded; a matter at Troy concerning Charles D. Barney; Charlie Hubbard dead; Captain Morrison having a brother [John Irwin Morrison (1806-1882), state treasurer of Indiana, 1865-1867] in the Treasury Department at Washington, D.C.

Met Frank at Harrisburg, Pennsylvania; judge Sloane Eade's conversation concerning the affairs of [Jay] Cooke, [William] Moorhead, John Butler, and Charles D. Barney; death of Mr. Culbertson; Mr. Keiffer going to country to preach; Sallie [Barney] going to Sabbath School with Frank

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Commenting on news of the recipients welfare and happiness and birth of a son and heir; eloquent letter expressing feelings of friendship and religious faith; attending second season of college in Glasgow; news of various family members and friends

Finishing the last of his classical curriculum at college and qualifying for the study of Divinity, hopefully at Paisley with Andrew Symington, the Cameronian Divinity professor; discourse on education, studies and student life; death of brother John's wife, leaving him with two babies; news of various family members and friends

Circumstances of the death of Mary McGill's husband on April 28, 1887; news of national matters -- multitudes of banks failing in England; tremendous eclipse of manufacturing and trade, especially cotton and silk; failure of crops through Britain and Ireland

Death of McClew's father-in-law; an old friend John being a wag at the John McThie Distillery of Whiskey; news of family and friends

Inquires of his brother Charles [Neilson] who sailed for New York last June and made no contact since; his family growing to four -- wife Alice and a daughter and a son; household also contains four boarders and [two] servants; news of various "Galloway relations"; comments on the agitation in Scotland in regard to civil establishments of religion; a meeting in Glasgow between their Synod and delegates from the Irish Synod concerning the "American Question!"

News of his own family, including sons William and Peter, daughters Jean and Mary, and of other family members and friends; death of John Nelson, and of his wife son William's wife, leaving one child; discussion of religious unrest in Scotland

Requests Mrs. Wagner to visit Richmond and discuss news of their mutual acquaintances from New York; Richmond being honored by a visit from the president-elect [William Henry Harrison (1773-1841)] and vice- president-elect [John Tyler (1790-1862)]; describes activities in honor of the president and vice-president and a sword presentation ceremony honoring the officers who are natives of Virginia, who had distinguished themselves during the last war; mentions [Thomas] Ritchie and Thomas Walker Gilmer, and meeting the president and vice-president at the governor's house

Rowing and fishing, hunting, making a kite, boarding with Wilbur H. Brink

In reply to his inquiry concerning his brother Paul who left them in the spring and reportedly was working as a mechanic in Brooklyn, New York; advises against hiring a detective, suggesting that he advertise in the newspapers of the large cities

Concerning his brother Paul [written in German]

Relates the history of James B. Green, a blind man who tutors and [has served as a licentiate in the School of Law from 1896], and his wife; writes of Bettie Burwell Page Cocke (1841-1900), widow of John Bowdoin Cocke (1836-1889), and her daughter, Betty Page Cocke, who run the boarding house [on University Avenue next to St. Paul's Church] in which the correspondent boards; mentions "Raleigh," the African- American servant at the boarding house