WEDNESDAY 5
A cool drizzling day, raining right down much of the time. Alone in our room again today, Doct King sick, Mr Upton off as usual nearly all day. Yesterday I made out a Classified Report of the applications for Patents in our Room for 1860 for the Commissioner. Was on the Ave after dinner, no particular news. Rcd letter today from E P Taft, expects to be here this week on a visit to the City. I got the NY papers and came home from “Willards” before dark. It is full as safe to be at home after dark now.
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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.