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Diary - 1861 [textual record]

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Date:

1861.

Reference:

R7666-17-3-E, MG29-B1, Volume number: 150

Type of material:

Textual material

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Archives / Collections and Fonds

Item ID number:

4875991

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Sandford Fleming fonds

Sandford Fleming Diaries

Sandford Fleming Diaries, 1860-1869

Diary - 1861
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Date(s):

1861.

Place of creation:

Canada

Extent:

1 bound volume: black leather cover, 17.5 x 7.5 x 1 cm.

Language of material:

English

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Item consists of a black leather-bound diary, with gold-tooled "SANDFORD FLEMING TORONTO, 1861" on front cover, with an interior title as follows: "A Pocket Diary for 1861; Containing A Blank Space for Every Day in the Year for the Record of Interesting Events, a Cash Account for Each Month, Bills Payable and Receivable, etc etc etc." Published annually by Denton and Wood, Cambridgeport, Mass. 1861.

Diary has the following piece of information pasted onto a blank page near the front cover: "James Bain, Bookseller, King Street, Toronto."

Diary contains sporadic handwritten entries for the entire year. Fleming notes that he is at Davenport (Toronto) wiith his wife and children. A loose piece of paper, headed with the words "Montreal Telegraph Company", inserted into the diary near the first entry is a telegraph message to Fleming with acronymns for various telegraph offices between Toronto and Collingwoord, Ontario. On June 6, 1861 he writes that his wife "gave me my second little daugter about 12 oclock (noon) today at Davenport. She did not feel very well at breakfast and thought I had better go for the nurse and doctor."

There are detailed financial accounts at the end of the diary for most months of the year, showing how much money Fleming spent, how much he had in the bank, and how much money he had on his person (in hand or in pockets).

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MG29-B1
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Volume [R7666] 150

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