The Harry Watkins Diary, Volume 11 [July 22, 1853–June 12, 1854]

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Title: The Harry Watkins Diary, Volume 11 [July 22, 1853–June 12, 1854]
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.; Harvard Library Viewer (opens in new tab)
Date: July 22, 1853
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13 December 1853

Tues. (Tuesday) 13th . Foggy—Reading, writing, & rehearsing A.M.—study P.M. at Theatre 7 P.M. being eleven nights since I last appeared—Had twenty, or twenty five [sic twenty-five] , dollars extracted from my pocket-book while on the stage. The money was rolled up in my pantaloons pocket and put in my valise. I could suspect no one, though the robbery had evidently been ~~taken~~ done by some person who knew of my having the money. It served me right though, as I should have known better than to take so much money with me to the Theatre after paying so ~~much~~ dearly for a lesson at Philadelphia—