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A DIARY OF SARAH LOGAN FISHER
Entries for 1816 and 1824
The small-format diary in stiff period wrapper with foldout astrological chart. The entries begin in 1816 with Sarah as a school girl at 10 years of age, a number of empty pages follow and the entries resume when she is 18 years old in September 1824 recording the visit of Lafayette to Philadelphia. Excerpts:
"I went in town with Uncle Smith in order the see the parade in honour of Lafayette's arrival in our prosperous city. the 27th was spent in making calls and I spent the evening with my dear friends the McMinns. Early in the morning of the 28th crowds of people were seen in the streets, the window, and the steps of houses were filled with persons eager to show their curiosity and affection for a person who had devoted himself to the interest of our country. In the morning, the review took place at Franklin and about 1.o'clock we heard the firing of cannon which was the signal of his entrance. In and hour we perceived the cavalry approaching playing the full band in appropriate turn.... In the midst of them was the general drawn by six cream colored horses in buff and blue livery; the general is a very fine looking man, the living image of my dear Uncle Francis Rotch; he rode in the barouche with Judge Peters who appeared to be a very amusing companion;....He was followed by his body guard and three wagons loads of old revolutionary soldiers with heads silvered by time who appeared to be much delighted by his train; the printers and mechanics, rope makers, farmers and sundry other professions of diffrerent employments followed...there were fifteen bands but in consequence of the fatigue of the morning they played very little when they arrived in town. Numerous flags were waving in the air with appropriate mottos, on most were seen "Virtue, Liberty and Lafayette." On some the united heads of Washington and Lafayette. The whole procession was three miles long composed of 10 thousand persons and took and hour to pass in Arch st.....We saw the general enter the elegant triumphal arch erected for him from there into the state house. The arch is about sixty feet high from the top, composed of painted canvas with inscriptions and figures suited to the occasion....
"In the evening we went out to view the illumination which was very brilliant and reflected much credit to the taste of those who designed it. General Cadwallader's house was illuminated with lamps placed on the outside of the house in order to form the initials of the general. Many of the houses of Arch St. were dark on account of Quaker influence. And those which were lighted only served to make darkness visible in the lower parts of it. But in Chestnut, the light was very brilliant, the state house illuminated by transparencies of Hope, Charity, Liberty, Independence, &c. In Beck's we observed the barouche and six of the general, which made a very pretty transparency. Numberless figures of Lafayette and Washington were seen in every street.
"La Bonne...the ship which first brought our patriotic hero to the American shores was displayed at the coffee house. The mansion house which was taken for the general during his stay in Philadelphia was brilliantly illuminated and a number of the banks were illuminated in a splendid manner by having the lights placed inside the pillars.
"The Bank of the United States looked particularly beautiful illuminated in this manner. The design was given by Strickland and is the manner of illuminating public buildings Italy."
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