Alfred I. Paxson family history, diary, and reflections - plain text

Abstract

Plain text format. The first eighty-seven pages of the volume consist of Paxson's autobiography and, later, diary entries. The final twenty-nine pages of the volume, spanning from pages 100 through 129 of the numbered journal, contain several of Paxson's "Reflections and Meditations" on topics such as death, religion, nature, the uncertainty of life, the usefulness of industry, bad and good, war, the seasons, the wonderfulness of our maker, female tight-lacing, and the "going down" of the Friend Meeting in Stanton, Delaware.