The he Diary 0/ Harriet Amelia Arndt For 1865 Excerpts from a Paper Read by John Dunlap Kendig As Reported by M. Luther Heisey The feature of the meeting on March 1 was the story, as told by John Dunlap Kendig, from the diary of his grandmother, Har- riet Amelia Arndt, of Manheim. It was a recital

Irish Tract Lane. To this place he often invited the members of Congress to dine and to drink. He appears to have been on very intimate terms with nearly all of them. They were calling on him and he on them almost every day. Many of them were fre- quent diners at his son Christopher's, and here he also

camps, the distances, and the landmarks, and the news ofthe day, falling victim only rarely to "Camp News". He was a prolific letter writer, and records faithfully to whom he wrote, and from whom he received letters, keeping a running tally in the back ofhis diaries. He was also frugal, and kept

Pennsylvania in most interesting and enlightening records. Our Society has in its Library a copy of this Diary and there is within its covers a graphic pen picture of the period which in its gripping details and its lifelike portrayal is unsurpassed by any other revolutionary lore. His residence during the