John Milton Binckley, June 1859 Travel Diary, Page 8

[John Milton Binckley, June 1859 Travel Diary, page 8. Many thanks to William Myers, Mary Davy, Sally Young and Sue Davis for their ongoing research collaboration; specifically to William for providing scans of the original document, and in turn many thanks to Peter Johnston Binckley and Patricia D'Arcy "Trish" Binckley (1951-2007), at the source.

The handwriting is difficult to translate and transcribe. Corrections and clarifications will be ongoing.]

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ideally beautiful, and the image has all the loveliness of an ideality and all the interest and permanence of a reality actually seen. Such things & such meeting and passing, and forgetting, are like memories that never have intelligent life, born, like some beings on Earth, to open eyes for one instant, & then to shut in forever. But this one did not perish, but has been translated into a region which where Mary says the beautiful shall never perish in the worldly air.

The lands are not so good as nearer Balt[imore] but are fair, wheat in quantity, looks well in hand, & waves in the wind.

Near Monrovia & I remarked to Mother “I’m thinking of home soon we will meet the boys” (my brothers). “Yes,” said she “but how long it will be” just so.

Near Mt. Airy. Here on the Pike (this note before Monrovia & not after) is a foot transfer another road. Poor fellow he looks at the cars, & when I think of the 28 or 9 hard not stormy miles he has yet to go to Balt[imore]

[John Milton Binckley (1831-1878).

Mother = Charlotte Stocker Binckley (1788-1877).

Mt. Airy, Monrovia, and Baltimore - all in Maryland. Monrovia is about ten or eleven miles east southeast of Frederick, Maryland.]