The Diary

To town via L. Road. Yesterday and today received a large batch of answers from Stenographers, lunch at U. Sq. Hotel; with Tretbar & Dulcken; Fuller, and also Burt In afternoon Robert Sigel calls, I dictate to him he phonographs quite well and I engage him, to come Monday, at $12 pr. week. Take supper at Kladifkos, to my house at 7½ P.M. when Jos. P. Hale & Fuller come. After a protracted discussion until 11 P.M. we settle on terms which are $5000. in Cash to be paid tomorrow and Hales signing a document (which he does on the spot) agreeing not to infringe again

Slept in front room, feel a little stiff in my right ancle, rains all day, take Medicine lunch at U. Sq. with Tretbar, at 4 P.M. with Fr. St. & Cassebeer  to Astoria in a fearful rainstorm. A Louise Cassebeer signs her will before me, H. St. & Henry Ziegler;