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 29, 2025.

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01 October 1853

Pleasant—Rehearsal A.M. Jo Sefton was put in Jail for threatening the life of Fitzgerald, a person who joined the company during the last week—From what I could learn there was no provocation given, but Sefton being drunk was very quarrelsome and threw a pitcher at the head of Fitzgerald—the pitcher missing the its mark Sefton snatched up a large carving fork and would have used it, perhaps fatally, had he not others stepped in and prevented him. This occurred last evening and everybody thought that the affair would drop, but Sefton, keeping up his drunk, came to the Theatre this A.M. and sought to renew the difficulty but Tilton took coaxed him away and he went home. In the P.M. Fitzgerald, fearing Sefton’s threats, had him arrested. Sefton is a very disagreeable man in company;—seldom speaking a good word of anybody I would not have such a man in a Theatre of which I was the manager—Studying P.M. at Theatre 7 P.M. In playing the part of Strapado an unpleasant accident occurred; the pantaloons that I wore being rather tight bursted in the seat and made rather a dark exposure, I illegible I thought the audience seemed unusually delighted at something and vainly attributed their mirth as to my good acting—I never discovered what the matter was until after coming off the stage, and then only when told of it. I felt about as mean as a man possibly could under the circumstances, but accidents will happen—: though I shall take good care that the same thing

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