Smithsonian Institution The William Steinway Diary: 1861-1896
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| New York, March 6th 1877. | ||
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Tuesday Mar 6th |
In bed, Dr. Lellmann attends slept badly during the night | |
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Wed. 7th of Mar. |
In bed but feel somewhat better, Sleep well | |
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March 8th Thursday. |
Mrs. Emma Steins calls upon us. Consultations with Van Santvoord and Albert in my library where I had gone down at 2 P.M. Read & write balance of day & eve'g. Mrs. Evers with children to Steinway Hall, to hear De Cordova, To bed at 9½ P.M. | |
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March 9th friday, |
slept well, a furious gale raged all night, it also rains, I get up about 11 o'clock feeling much better, sit down in the library writing. Albert giving direct Testimony in the Chickering suit, before our lawyer Van Santvoord & Chg. lawyer Fuller, in presence of C. F. Chickering, who for the first time discovers that his pianos also has the dowels under the projecting piers of the Iron frame I sleep very well indeed | |
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March 10th Sat. |
Am much improved except right elbow, get up early and by 9 A.M. am in the library. Have constant calls Kleinfelder calls on me, tells me that he examined at Chickg Warerooms, the Upright pianos, also at Chandlers in Brooklyn, and finds | |
March
6
1877
