Vol. 46, No.1

“I hate this place. Here I am in Shelburne, bored out of my skull, going crazy. I’m asking for my release. The man I’m going to talk to isn’t here right now. This is worse than Cornwallis; in Cornwallis it was physical work, here its mental work. Too hard for me.” Mary White, ‘I’m homesick.’

“The doctor has not come yet. She is not expected in for a while yet. I have to stay in bed. All before noon I have my breakfast in bed every morning and sometimes my dinner.” Maggie Best, ‘I find it awfully lonely down here’

“He is working at it for days. The ground is frozen solid. The minister all by himself and would only stop in the night and go home. People would Bring him food at 12 noon and 6 in the evening.” ‘These are coming from my heart.’