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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10 September 1853

. Pleasant—Reached Cleveland 5 A.M. breakfasted and, at 8 PAM. started for Cincinnatti [sic Cincinnati] , arriving there at 5. P.M. The man that invents a remedy plan to keep dust out of the cars will confer a great blessing on the travelling community and will deserves to have a monument to his memory erected by the subscription of every person obliged to travel by rail-road [sic railroad] —I could not have been much filthier if I had been used as a broom to sweep the streets of New York. Put up at the Woodruff House—An hour in the barber's hands and in a bath tub [sic bathtub] restored me to my proper self—Called on Bates to learn where he wished to make use of my services—and he told me at Louisville Parsloe had not yet informed him of my engagement but he was glad that I had come—Talked with him till 10 P.M. then went to bed—and glad I was to get there—No trouble to fall asleep

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