Journal
| Description: |
Journal Entried; dated Dec. 8, 1840-Jan. 22, 1841; also quotations, account records, one pencil sketch, misc. other material AMs, 75 p. (additional pages blank; some notations in pencil) p. 2 (written upside down): July 19, 1836, Cincinnati: note of the outcome of a trial, p. 3-4 (G.W.'s p. 2): blank p. 5-37 (G.W.'s p. 3-19): Journal entries for Dec. 8, 12-31, 1840, Jan. 1-2, 10-22, 1841, Logansport. Individual entries: Dec. 8: Comments on the pleasure and duties of setting up their own household; they began independent life together 8 days previously. They have not hired a servant, and are doing their own housework. Description of their daily routine; their brief ownership of a cat; their eccentric Irish washerwoman; visitors they have had.Dec. 12: Visiting neighbors; George Winter played his guitar and sang at Biddle's office this evening. Dec. 13: The sermon at church; visits from friends. Dec. 14: Due to the poorness of the Michigan Road, no mail has arrived for a week. Evening spent with friends; G.W. played his guitar. Dec. 15: Rainy; Mary's parents visited them. Dec. 16: Visits to neighbors; sunny. Dec. 17: Sunny and cold. Dec. 18: Copy of a poem by Thos. H. Baily, on the falsehood of man. Dec. 19: Calls by and on friends. Dec. 20: That morning's church sermon. Dec. 21: Friends for supper. Dec. 22: Thoughts on wisdom and foolishness; visits from friends and Mrs. Squiers. Dec. 23: Complaints about the high price of wood, and the untrustworthiness of wood suppliers. Visits to neighbors. Dec. 24: Describing a mock funeral, by the Logansport Thespian Society of the effigy of a man who had in some way wronged them. |
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| Origin: | 1840-1841 |
| Created By: |
Winter, George, 1810-1876; |
| Publisher: |
Tippecanoe County Historical Association |
| Source: |
http://earchives.lib.purdue.edu/cdm/ref/collection/gwinter/id/1472 |
| Collection: |
George Winter |
| Copyright: |
Images in the George Winter Collection should not be used without written permission from the Tippecanoe County Historical Association. To obtain reproduction rights and prices, contact the Tippecanoe County Historical Association at info@tippecanoehistory.org |
| Subjects: |
Winter, George, 1810-1876--Diaries Logansport (Ind.) |
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