Lydia's Autograph Book: Friends, Forget Me Not 1 - Page 61

"Lydia Conditt, With a heart free from care and my home in the East. I pace the broad deck with a light throbbing breast. Yet still as I dream of those days that are gone, of the gay happy hours in my own native hand, far far are the wave my wonders there to its shine of devotion, where youth free from care we spent such do golden hours of innocence".