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Sunday 8th
Sunday 8th
Left home about 9:20 [?] after 10. Had to borrow 7 cents from news man to Court; also the morning paper, Herald + [?]. Met Nashit on Second Avenue. He put himself
Left home about 9:20 [?] after 10. Had to borrow 7 cents from news man to Court; also the morning paper, Herald + [?]. Met Nashit on Second Avenue. He put himself about + got me $1. Nothing to eat till 11. Then it was 5 cakes. Something to eat at 12 or [?] 1 1/2. Another funny [?] of mine in today's paper. Whole one [?]. Paid back news man. To Batyh on 3.30 [?]. Miss [?] here till after supper. Gain with [?] + papers + a [?]. Pass of a dull day feeling badly. Been smoking greatly of late. To bed late.
 
Monday 9th
Right cool yesterday + last night. Very unlike July weather. Borrowed 50 cents from Papa today. How I am to get through rest of week I don't know. Cool +damp today. Everything feel damp about the

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July Thursday 5th 1877 And now all the paper opeal of the unusually quiet Fourth. For a gracious what it must have been of worse than yesterday. To Home early this morning I [?] in travel day light- in circumstances of bathing with Fitspatick. Met Braden yesterday, also Areph [?] Braden bootcamp oddly of course. He + I chatted considerably. He was found for college Point. For up after 12 didn't go to bed tell [?] after. Made out my bill $20.70. Expect it to be cut down. [?] very little there. To office. Sent up to interview new suspects on [?] Hayes scandal. Another prominent scandal is the [?] one. To Harris about 11 or 12. Read second letter ffrom Aunt Jin.

Friday 6th With just 2 cents to cross ferry. Recd $19.70 cut down one dollar. Paid Nashit one [?] dollars owing him. A funny sting of mine appeare in today's [?] entitled "A Patriotic Prisoner". Editor spoke of it with praise + said that was what he wanted. He said I might even imagine a little [?] as if this [?] were not out of whole cloth. Before going to court and [?] live more one purely imaginative and the other with just particle of [?] in it. To court + back to office. Handed in copy. Heard live editors enjoy up my 2nd funny story. Have [?] that is to [?]!

July Saturday 7th Paid Mrs. Harris $2. Bought suit clothes $14.50. Swamped in pocket again. To count two items sent off Aunt [?] letter to me. To him yesterday or day before. My funny story in today's paper. Wrote another one or rather handed in one I wrote yesterday. To 13 O Livingston St. where Braden now lives [?]. I did not see him either time. Saw [?] woman there who was very polite. Not a cent in my pocket. No supper for me today and no dinner either for that matter. To Harris' about 8. Chatted awhile with old gentleman. Sat an stoop alone for about an hour. Then lay [?] bed with clothes an restless sleep. Not feeling well and low spirited.

Sunday 8th Left home about 9:20 [?] after 10. Had to borrow 7 cents from news man to Court; also the morning paper, Herald + [?]. Met Nashit on Second Avenue. He put himself about + got me $1. Nothing to eat till 11. Then it was 5 cakes. Something to eat at 12 or [?] 1 1/2. Another funny [?] of mine in today's paper. Whole one [?]. Paid back news man. To Batyh on 3.30 [?]. Miss [?] here till after supper. Gain with [?] + papers + a [?]. Pass of a dull day feeling badly. Been smoking greatly of late. To bed late.

Monday 9th Right cool yesterday + last night. Very unlike July weather. Borrowed 50 cents from Papa today. How I am to get through rest of week I don't know. Cool +damp today. Everything feel damp about the