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
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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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12 September 1853

. Slight sprinkling early A.M. cleared off when the sun rose—Steamer reached Louisville sometime during the night—Roused up at 5 A.M. washed, dressed, and took a walk about town till 8 A.M. when I found out the lodgings of E. T. Tilton—the stage-manager—woke him, and he went around with me in searcillegibleh of a boarding house—After considerable trouble found a placillegiblee illegible where reasonable board was to be procured at $6,00 per week A goodslip boarding-house in Louisville would be a novelty; the best hotel in the town is nothing to boast of, whilst the charges are enormous in comparison to the accomodations [sic accommodations] —I am glad that our stay here is but for a month, at the end of which time we proceed to St Louis, where I hope we shall winter

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