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 29, 2025.

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19 August 1853

Beautiful day—the weather having cooled off considerably—down town [sic downtown] A.M. P.M. went with Mother & George over to Williamsburgh [sic Williamsburg] on a visit to the Kemps—passed a very few hours very pleasantly and returned home at 10.—. then to bed—I shall begin to think that I am too particular in the choice of a wife ever to get one, for here are two girls either of whom would slip make an excellent wifes wife and they are both very fond of me, yet I cannot fancy them although they are both very fond of me. But then I wish to marry in my profession.

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