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Monday Dec 2

C & P - PM at Gold Hill on insurance etc - Evening Enterprise - got in another "Along the Railroad" - read proof etc - Bed 2 -

Tuesday Dec 3

Variable - pleasant - Wrote more of Bennett's crankiness - also "Sierra" and "Sierras" for Enterprise - office reading proof etc -- Andy Patterson, Bob's brother died at his residence this morning from chronic rheumatic affliction - They were twins, 63 years & 4 months old - I wrote a nice obituary notice of him in Enterprise tonight - Bed 2 - cloudy, with light spray of snow or rain -

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Wednesday Dec 4

Same - Morning a light covering of snow whitened the ground - Chilly day - Though rather pleasant - Rec'd a sharp sort of a letter from Alexander Bedlam, President of the Bankers & Merchants M L Ass'n - PM wrote a long reply to it - Evening copied it - (9) big pages, closely written - Took me till 4 oclock - Bed -

Thursday Dec 5

Clear cold & pleasant - As usual - PM Bennett visited me & paid me $5 on my crank writings for him - Evening about town - PM fund of Andy Patterson - Bed 3

Friday Dec 6

Stormy - Morning train to Carson - Yerington left for a 2 months visit to the East and Canada today so I didn't see him - was about town & went back to Va on the

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