Diary of US patent clerk Horatio Nelson Taft.
    

“The Brazilian Minister wants to rent my House & furniture for one of his friends. I hardly know what to do.”—Horatio Nelson Taft

WEDNESDAY 21

This has been a fine cool day but bright with a feeling of Autumn in the air. I saw the Comr this morning but could get nothing satisfactory from him in reference to my restoration to the Pat office. Came home about noon. The Brazilian Minister wants to rent my House & furniture for one of his friends. I hardly know what to do. I called upon Mr Connoly on M St this eve’g. He has a daughter at the Mount Holyok[e] School where I may send Julia.

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The three diary manuscript volumes, Washington during the Civil War: The Diary of Horatio Nelson Taft, 1861-1865, are available online at The Library of   Congress.

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