Wednesday 9th (April)
Quite a pleasant morning, but was obliged to walk to school alone.
We had quite an interesting lecture from Rev Dr Simpson, and also from Mr Mathews
teacher of some Academy I do not know which. Things went on as usual until noon
when I came home to dinner and after dinner went down to the pork house and asked
Uncle Henry for 2 dollars but he would not give it to me, so I went to school and
in the afternoon stopped, but could not get it so I came home and expected to have
a scolding but she had gone downtown, so I escaped it. In the evening I studied
my lessons, and then went into Cousin Maria’s, and after a little while came
home and Catherine S[pooner] and William S[pooner] came in, Father came home about 9 or 10 oclock
in the evening, but was dreadful sick.
Perhaps Mr. Mathews is Charles E. Matthews, A.M., Adjunct
Professor of Mathematics and Secretary of the Faculty at the Woodward College
and High School (Cist 69). M. Simpson, D.D., is the editor of the Western Christian Advocate, a weekly
publication of the Episcopal Methodist Church in Cincinnati (Cist 74).
Catherine S and William S may be Catherine and William
Spooner. William Lewis Spooner has a hardware business at 198 Main and lives on
the south side of 9th between Walnut and Vine (Williams’ Cincinnati
Directory). He is Serena’s cousin, the son of Reed Spooner and Abigail Lewis.
He was born in 1818 and married Catherine Smith in 1840. They have three
children living in 1851 – Lemuel Reed Spooner (10), Edmund Dana Spooner (8),
and Charles Wiley Spooner (6) (Spooner 151).
It is official! Jenny Lind is really coming to sing at the National Theatre in Cincinnati.
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