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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24 July 1853

Sund. (Sunday) 24th . Warm—Reading & Walking. A.M—at Williamsburgh [sic Williamsburg] all the P.M. and until 11 at night—got in company with Mrs Forbes who was an excellent talker, though not a learned one. She was first rate [sic first-rate] company to while away tedious time with. Her husband ~~was~~ the manager of the Providence museum. R.I. (Rhode Island) was very anxious to have me engage with him for the next season and I should have done so could we have agreed about the salary, but the highest figure on his salary list was fifteen dollars—a sum lower than I expect to play for this many a year to come