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to the Catholic Church; and I went to the Hall of the House of
Representatives, and heard a woman of the Society of Friends, Elizabeth H. Walker, pray, and
discourse about three hours. The house was well filled— I had a morning
visit from Mr
Sanford a Senator from the State of New-York— Mr and Mrs
Frye; his brother Frederick, and her Son, Robert Buchanan dined with us. After dinner we had a game
of Loto. In the Evening, I was suddenly and severely seized with the
rhumatism in my shoulder and left side. I went to bed in sharp pain, and
threatened with a rhumatic fever.
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