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House -- Big house -- Very funny -- Enjoyed it much -- of the "Pinafore" order -- musical burlesque -- Home at 2 -- wrote letter to M H de Young of SF Chronicle -- Fixed up Sammy's goat, shaved etc & got ready to go to Reno -- Didnt go to bed or sleep at all --

I in Reno My Blanket Overcoat More Snow

Sunday Dec 6

Same -- Went to Reno on morning train -- Found all righ -- Evening down town with wife to train & mailed my letter to M H de Young -- Bed at 10:30 -- This was a sharp, cold morning -- I slept in my seat in the car from Carson to Steamboat -- about an hour --

Monday Dec 7

Very sharp clear, cold morning -- Off for Va at 7:10 -- Had my big blanket over-coat which my folks got dyed last week in Reno for $4 to a nice dark brown from the (( word erased )) coler it had -- Found it good to wear & comfortable -- Va at 11 -- found a little snow in Carson & 1 or 2 inches in Va -- Fell early this

carpentering Col Shaw gone to SF Va Dramatic Co -- "Under the Gaslight"

morning -- commenced carpentering my new clothes closet or shelves -- got up 1st shelf -- & had to quit to go to office to work -- Col Shaw went to San F this eveing on a private detective arrangement in connection with libel suit of E J Reek of Eureka vs the Enterprise -- to be gone 3 or 4 days -- Old Jim Townsend in his place on the paper -- Play of "Under the Gaslight" at Opera House this evening by

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