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Personal narrative - Miss Eliphal Nichols

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[printed letterhead] THE UNIVERSITY LIBRARY. DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY HALIFAX, N.S.

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Did not undress - did not go to sleep till 6 a.m. - were up at 7 to hear the fire-bells - back at School by daylight before 8 a. m. all had to be fed & washed - cold -

Begging more sheets - night clothes - trying to get them warm - windows stuffed up - but let in cold - with hot-water bottles.

Feb 23rd - Fed men. Cafooth - "Scotty" - off "Picton" - wanted to eat - broken arm - (still in hospital) - broke arm a second time - making fun for the whole ward - chaffing Chinaman - solder & several sailors - working-men & one Indian - staid till 3 & fed all ward at noon - wasn't every day that he had a girl to feed him.
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Camp Hill - supper - P. feed people - " had to walk on the edge of the mattresses" - "so thankful" - on the 7th. Got home about 9.
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Dec. 8 Satur. Got to Camp Hill about 8 a. m.
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Velma Moore - melted butter - spread with paintbrush - cut with knives -
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Dec. 9 at 10 to 7. a. m.
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Miss Ayer, dietitian - no rest till Saturday - feet swollen - never lost sweetness of voice or temper --

[handwritten in pencil top right: MG 1 vol 2124 number 209 c]


Student at Dalhousie College, details of events at the School for the Blind.

Reference: Archibald MacMechan Nova Scotia Archives MG 1 volume 2124 number 209

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