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Diary - 1866 [textual record]

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Date:

1866.

Reference:

R7666-27-6-E, MG29-B1, Volume number: 151

Type of material:

Textual material

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Archives / Collections and Fonds

Item ID number:

4887016

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Sandford Fleming fonds

Sandford Fleming Diaries

Sandford Fleming Diaries, 1860-1869

Diary - 1866
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Date(s):

1866.

Place of creation:

Canada

Extent:

1 bound volume: black leather cover, 19 x 9 x 1.5 cm.

Language of material:

English

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Item consists of an overszed black leather-bound diary. The diary has the following gold-tooled title: "SANDFORD FLEMING HALIFAX, 1866" on front cover, with an interior title as follows: "The Complete Pocket Diary for 1866 Containing A Blank Space for Every Day in the Year, for the Record of Interesting Events, A Cash Account for Each Month, Eclipses for 1866, Rates of Postage, and a Complete Schedule of Stamp Duties, Compiled from Law of June 30, 1864, etc etc etc. Published for the Trade."

Diary contains pockets to place miscellaneous items.

Diary contains brief handwritten entries for parts of the year. A newspaper notice pasted into the first day of 1866 indicates that Mrs. Fleming had given birth to a baby boy on Dec. 29, 1865 in Halifax. In late February, there are various entries indicating that baby is very ill, and then a newspaper notice from Feb. 28, 1866 indicates the death of "Paul, infant son of Sandford Fleming, Esq., aged 2 months." Fleming writes in his diary for the date: "This morning about 4 oclock after rallying a little...our dear child at last passed quietly away...This is the first death that has really come home to me - part of us is now now really in another world."

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MG29-B1
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