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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12 June 1854

Mond. (Monday) 12 Pleasant—Reading—downtown A.M. For the last three or four months I have been trying in vain to get an instrument made like a shephards [sic shepherd's] pipe to be played upon with the same fingering necessary to a fife, I called upon several of the first musical instrument makers but they all said it could be not be done—I thought …damageit could, yet began to despair ~~to despair~~ of having it done, as no perso…damagen tha…damage thus far, applied to …damageld undertake …damage job.. This P.M. happ…damageened in at a little shop where a …damage was at w…damage