The Harry Watkins Diary, Volume 5 [Dec. 3, 1849–May 24, 1850]

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Title
The Harry Watkins Diary, Volume 5 [Dec. 3, 1849–May 24, 1850]
Author
Harry Watkins
Editor
Amy E. Hughes, Naomi Stubbs
Print Source
Harry Watkins. Diary. Papers of the Skinner family, 1874-1979 (inclusive), box 17, MS Thr 857. Houghton Library, Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass.
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Date
Dec. 3, 1849
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"The Harry Watkins Diary, Volume 5 [Dec. 3, 1849–May 24, 1850]." In the digital collection The Harry Watkins Diary: Digital Edition. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/hwatkins.0005.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 6, 2025.

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14 December 1849

. No sun to day [sic today] —walk A.M. writing P.M. we reopen tomorrow night, the bills say with additions to the stock, misprint I presume, substractions [sic subtractions] would have

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been the correct wording. Miss Wood, who was engaged for "Walking Ladies," and whose ambition did not soar above that line of bparts—being compelled, in the absence of a Juvenile actress, to play that business in conjunction with her own, after working herself sick by over exertion [sic overexertion] , had the courage to write to Mr. Burton to have her salary increased from ten to fifteen dollars, deeming the former sum an inadequate compensation for the destruction of her health Emperor Burton burning with rage at the audacious presumption of his rebellious subject, and having no other means of vengeance, issued his imperial commands, illegible through his vicegerent, to banish the contumacious Miss Wood from his dominions. Why will persons be so foolish as to seek for their rights, and demand justice!—8 P.M. dropped in at the "Sansom Street Hall" to see the "N.O. (New Orleans) Serenaders

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