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MAY WEDNESDAY 3 1876

Go to Tanry at 7 F Clark & Anthony at work this AM. Str City gets in today. Get letter from TP&Co about drains $1900, at 3 mos. Put up Hair for Hallam 200 Bags Draw out Statement for Apl. stay at Tannery till 9 PM.

MAY THURSDAY 4 1876

Go to Tanry at 7. Ship Bags 200 Hair on City to Hallam. I go over for Boat this 1st time today. Send Fletcher & Cassels & Boyd, about my Mothers Answer H Bruks Bill. In. Scadding & Hewitt & return shares he Made for me see Kerr & Anderson about Invoice & Marshalls a/c. Have talk with Charley Howe about Sole Leat Sit at Americans & talk with Capt. Bartlett till 12. Parsons returns from Montreal today, tells me he can sell Hardman lots of Leat. & Campbell will take 100 Hides per week.

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