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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 --

Alexander Bedlam -- Yerington Goes East

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