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William Fitzgerald Diary, 1892-1893

William Fitzgerald Diary, 1892-1893_043.pdf

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Aug. 25th 1892.

Thur. 25. Rainy all day with tremendous force lasting from the night previous being perhaps the longest and heaviest of the season

Fri. 26. Still raining very hard but not to be compared with yesterday mostly by spells visiting at Mr McAdoo's tonight spent a nice time singing and playing on the piano it commenced raining shortly after I arrived there and continued with {illegible} I got home about 10:30 P.M.

Sat. 27. Turned out a fine day it being cloudy and misly in the morning but clearing off and being fine the rest of the day

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Aug. 28. 1892.

Sun. 28. Beautiful all day being cool and pleasant

Mon. 29. Lovely day quite hot in the afternoon

Tues. 30. Another fine day very warm but a shift Southeast wind was blowing quite calm tonight but a little cloudy rain not far distant from appearances the wind shifting S West and blowing a perfect gale most of the night commencing to rain about 2 Oclock A.M. we had a very heavy shower

Wed. 31. Clouded in the morning but clearing off stiff west wind howling all day quite cool partly clouded tonight

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