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John Alexander Blake Diary, 1876
John A Blake 1876 Diary 163.pdf
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{page for November Friday 3 1876 and November Saturday 4 1876 missing)
NOVEMBER SUNDAY 5 1876
Go to Church, in P.M. up at Grals quarters he is not at home. I go home. Take Ginger Ale & dont go out again.
NOVEMBER MONDAY 6 1876
Go to Tannery at 8. Go to dinner at 12, stop in at JT Kirbys - Coal Hole - dont get home till 4. Go to Tannery again then up Town, meet Willie Watt, he goes home with me, & goes in. I speak very cross to Wife, & tell Willie all about Flint Curries wife. etc. etc. & what the Chittendens said about him at Hop last summer to Dora Clark.
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