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Ithaca diary

Collection — manuscript box: 54 - folder 1

Identifier: 3012m

Scope and content

Diary of an unidentified Ithaca businessman, possibly a grocer. He was a member of the Oddfellows Lodge and the DeWitt Guards. The diary comments on the escape of Edward Rulloff, on lecturers and preachers, including C. M. Clay and Horace Mann; and frequently on the weather. He also notes the scarcity of certain provisions in the city, the opening and closing of canal traffic, the flood of June 17-18, depressed business in the fall of 1857, the bank's suspension of specie payment in October, and what he is reading.