ENJune 29 - July 13, 1846
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1846 June 29th Plowing left hand side Path
thro field ground very hard 30 Finished weeding
Tobacco this oth side branch - &
Replanted in the evening it Rained a little
30th Still Laying by corn in big field —
July 1st Rained a smart shower last night
weeding Tobacco the other side& hilling upbranch from house
2nd Plowing corn & weeding Tobacco.
last evening about night it rained a
pretty shower 3rd Rained yesterday & last night
3rd This morning cloudy & ground too wet to
work, Hilling up new ground Tobacco - etc etc
Rained 2 Showers to day, ground too wet
except Our new ground which we are
hilling up, top a little Tobacco —
4th July clearedoffthis morning, - it rained
a good deal last night, —
5 A very pretty day Rained a little in evening
6th A little cloudy very seasonable weather
Plowing this morning - finished new ground
Tobacco to day - & Halling up wheat, -
7 Halling up wheat, weeding Tobacco in
second year ground, - Fed Fell off the cart
tongue & cart run over him, he got up
afterwards & walked home from fresh ground
8 Treading out wheat & weeding Tobacco
9 Sent to mill in cart & Plowing lots of
Tobacco & finishing weeding second yrs ground
10 Cutting Oats at Stony Point began
yesterday at home,
11 Cutting oats at Stony Point. Fed has got
out & weeding Tobacco —
Finished cutting Oats this day —
12th Went to Rice to meetings —
13th Phil Plowing Tobacco Lots. Henry & myself
halling up wheat & Oats. balance hilling
up Tobacco Lots.
Notes and Questions
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Note that this entry is not in chronological order
Is the page out of order, or one of the entries within the page?
The previous page was April 1847. The last page of Vol. 2, Book 2 starts at June 23, 1846. (other than the last pages that JWG uses for yearly calculations). I can't fully understand what happened.
Is there a chance that Graves just accidentally wrote the wrong year for this page? The previous page ended on April 26 1846 and this one starts on June 29 1846. Pro: people often mis-date the years on e.g. checks. Con: in addition to missing a year (an easy slip of the pen) he misses May, which is harder to believe.
The next page also claims to be 1846, which makes my theory of this being correctly dated (but started written most of the way through a blank notebook) more credible than Graves writing these entries in 1847 and mis-dating them.
Is there something else that could explain this? Do late June/early July 1846 appear in other notebooks as well?
I don't think Graves wrote the year mistakenly. The first page of this volume is dated 1846 July 30. This page here begins 1846 June 29th and continues onto the subsequent page which ends July 29th—the day before the first entry in this volume. Book 2 ends June 29, 1846; He must have started this book and skipped pages, then went back to the first page to continue. May 1846 is in Book 2.