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Tuesday Nov 3

Cloudy, cold, blustering & threatening -- Rose at 11:30 -- About town as usual -- Evening about 10 slight flurry of snow -- Office till past 2 -- Bed at 4 -- snowing lightly, but blowing like the devil occasionally --

1st Snow of Season Sharon Dying

Wednesday Nov 4

Stormy -- Rose at 1:30 snowing very lively -- Whole country white --melted almost as fast as it fell -- PM changed to rain -- Not much of either snow or rain fell, but enough to make the streets pretty muddy -- Evening cleared off cold & freezing -- Mud froze -- Work as usual -- Through in office at 1:30 -- Bed at 2:30 -- Some cloudy -- freezing -- 1st snow, and 1st freeze of the season -- The latest telegram from San Francisco tonight was to the effect that Sharon, who has been sick from malarial fever the last two or three weeks was lying very ill at the Palace Hotel, tonight, and that his life was dispaired of --

Snow Sam Crescengo Sharon still alive

Thursday Nov 5

Cloudy & threatening & cold -- Sent another letter to Sam Crescengo, Austin, today, about stocks -- Office till 2 -- Bed 3 -- Snowed quite lively about 10 oclock this evening, but not enough to whiten the country -- Uncle Billy Sharon still alive but arranging his worldly affairs calculating to die very shortly --

Friday Nov 6

Same -- Mining day -- stood in as usual -- Got letter from Sam Crescengo, about