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good -- Poor house -- The matinee this PM was better attended -- Through in office at 1 -- Bed at 2:30 -- Going to Reno in morning -- [next few lines not decipherable]

I in Reno 89 deg -- Hot! Mrs Hank Blanchard

Sunday June 20

Same -- Hotter -- Rose at 6 & took 7:20 train for Reno -- Delightful ride -- Country looking lovely in the extreme -- Found all right at home -- Evening went out to walk with children short time -- Then to depot & saw trains come in from East & the Comstock -- chatted with one & another & home at 10 -- bed -- thermometer 89 deg --

Monday June 21

Clear & warm -- Rose at 6 -- Breakfast -- Off for Va on 7:10 AM train -- Through on time at 10 -- Trains east, west etc all on time now -- 80 deg in Va -- Met Mrs Hank Blanchard on train -- In from Bodie on visit to friends in Carson, & on the Comstock -- Work as usual -- Bed at 3 -- Wrote letter to wife this PM, & also one to L P McCarty,

Wife JF Ryder LP McCarty Sent for Catheters
HP Wakelee another Banjo

SF, "Statistician," also one with $1 to J F Ryder, publisher, 239 Superior st Cleveland Ohio for 4 copies of the "Sweet Singer of Michigan," also one to H P Wakelee & Co SF druggists etc, for 2 doz No 4 flexible catheters "best English" -- Enclosed $3.50 to pay for them -- Returned 5 inferior ones which wouldnt pass water through them except in drops --

Tuesday June 22

Same -- 82 deg -- As usual -- PM I bought another banjo of Friedman for seven dollars --