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.
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Date
July 22, 1853
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"The Harry Watkins Diary, Volume 11 [July 22, 1853–June 12, 1854]." In the digital collection The Harry Watkins Diary: Digital Edition. https://quod.lib.umich.edu/h/hwatkins/hwatkins.0011.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 30, 2025.

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17 August 1853

Raining—down town [sic downtown] A.M. writing P.M. at Bowery & St (Saint) Charles Theatres in the evening—the Bowery is doing, as usual, a good business but I fear that Thorne's management of the St (Saint) Charles

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will be a brief one. He has not shown himself a good manager in this case, for if the Theatre could be made profitable he Thorne has not pursued the right course to make it so: yet if he can get through the warm season without loss he may eventually succeed

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