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Saturday July 30

Same -- Warmer -- 90[degrees] -- Morning train at 7:45 for Carson on some little prospective items of business. Met lots of friends & acquaintences of course -- Hot day, said to be about as hot as any this season there -- Back to Va on evening train -- 5:10 -- About town & at Enterprise -- Bed at 1 -- It was just as hot in Va today as in Carson -- 90 degrees --

Sunday July 31

Same -- 88 -- As usual -- About town-- Bed 12

Bessie Caldwell's Baby Boy -- 1892
California

Monday August 1, 1892

Clear and cloudy by turns, but pretty hot generally at 90[degrees] -- With me things passed about as usual. Evening about town -- Bed 12 -- PM met Bessie Calwell's father and he got me to write out an advertisement which we put into the Va Evening Chronicle as follows: [newspaper clipping here] Evening I wrote a 3 page letter to wife, at Eunice's, Santa Clara Cal, in reply to one I got from her this morning from Oakland Cal. She was going next day or so to Eunice's -- so this letter is liable to catch her there --

Tuesday Aug 2

Same -- cooler, 86[degrees] -- Evening at Enterprise, etc, Bed 2 ---

Wednesday Aug 3

Same -- Bed at 1 -- Locked out this evening, but got back.