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Monday April 20

AM clear & pleasant -- PM hazy & cold -- Passed as usual -- Bed 12 -- Was talking hilariously with Dan Davis in the International saloon only about 20 minutes befoe he went up home and died -- showed no sign or inclination of dying -- was smiling and apparently all right -- Mike Conlon was with me and we went to dinner together -- & while eating at the French Rotisserie the news of his death came to us --

Tuesday April 21

Same --

Wednesday April 22

Same -- Nothing new -- Stocks still exciting -- Bed at 12 --

Wednesday April 22

Variable -- Wrote some on Bennetts crank work -- Evening about town -- Bed 1 --

Will Gaige and Harry Summers

Thursday April 23

AM pleasant -- PM fiercely blustering -- all the dust on streets blew away and gravel flew worse than for years -- I about town as usual -- Evening at theater -- "Shenandoah" -- Biggest house for years -- Good play -- Very interesting etc -- Bed at 1 -- Still blustery & threatening storm --

Friday April 14

Clear and blustering -- Bed 1 --