Monday, August 16, 1869.
  Cloudy and cool
but did not rain.
Rose at 6.30 A.M.
and took the 7.45 coach
for Gorham.
Left Gorham at 9.30
and spent the whole
day in the cars, ar-
riving at Boston by
8 P.M.
Took supper
at Copelands and then
nine o'clock horse car
for Watertown where
I arrived at 10 P.M.
finding everything
all right.
Tuesday, August 17, 1869.
  Cloudy & rather warm.
Ther. about 60[degrees] - 70[degrees] - 
60[degrees]. Rose as usual.
After breakfast took
the General with Pat
in the rockaway &
drove into Boston,
stopping at the new
house, where I met H.
Henshaw. In Boston
bought twenty five pounds
of Nos. 4 and 8.
Also two hundred car-
tridges, wads, caps,
&c. a dozen artificial
flies some benzoim VC.
Got out to dinner at
2 P.M. In P.M. loaded
a hundred cartridges.
In evening started to ride
down to Cambridge,
but met R. Deane at
the gate & turned back.