The Harry Watkins Diary, Volume 5 [Dec. 3, 1849–May 24, 1850]
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- The Harry Watkins Diary, Volume 5 [Dec. 3, 1849–May 24, 1850]
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- Harry Watkins
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- Amy E. Hughes, Naomi Stubbs
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- 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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- 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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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 , 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.
Serenaders