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Metadata
Catalog Number |
023.057.11 |
Collection |
Robert Bowne Suckley (1856 - 1921) |
Title |
Daily Diary, October 1918 |
Date |
1918 |
Object Name |
Diary |
Scope & Content |
Small cream color notebook with "October, 1918" printed on cover. Provides two lined pages for each day of the month. 01 Tues: Gave Bessie 5. / Kid lost during the night but found by Celine this morning on Finck place. / Daisy, in the Ford, has been on duty all day as canvasser for the 4th Liberty Bond issue. 02 Wed: Daisy has been on duty all day as canvasser for the 4th Liberty Bond issue./ Helen Morton sent over as a present their pony cart to be used with the "Plum". 05 Sat: Bessie went to Mrs. Sallie D. Roosevelt's to hear lecture & tea; French babies./ Eliz. Lynch shut up her house today & came to us to stay. / Daisy got night mail./ Lansing told us that Rhinebeck had bought its quota of Liberty IV loan at noon today with the Astors & Mortons still to be heard from. 08 Tues: Ice in gutter. Last night record for the season, min. 34 ½ degrees./ Mary C. Montgomery arr'd at 4:20./ Eliz. Lynch arr'd at 6:51. . 10 Thurs: Paid Lettie 2 mos. to 26 Oct, 40./ Eliz. Lynch left in the 1:37 train for N.Y. / Mary C. M. lunched with the Starr Millers./ Victor Livingston came to tea. Took Mary for a ride. 12 Sat: Paid Kath. 54, Oct. allowance, cash./ Kath. to town in 9:35./ Rec'd from W.R. Carroll int. B&M to Aug.___,,1yr princip. 2000 on Marquet Bldng./ Rained during day. / Misses Roosevelt & Edith Miller lunched here./ Daisy arr'd at 4:20. 15 Tues: To town in 8:08./ Lunch alone at Eberlin's./ Wrote to Pease & Eliman to get me1 500 IV Liberty 4 l/4 coupon bond. Ditto to Rupert Anderson but to make it a 5 coupon bond./ Read papers & dined alone at Yacht Club; simply on English mutton chop, fried eggplant, baked potato & demitasse./ Watch at 2:15 + 12"./ Letter to Wm. Peters thanking him for the memorial to his nephew & promising him the memorial to HMS./ To Pok. in 7:45.11 o'cl local to Rh. 17 Thurs: Signed application to Mary C. Montgomery, canvasser at Flushing, for a $1000 coupon IV Liberty Loan Bond. Delivery at Chatham bank./ Signed application to Metropolitan Trust Co., NY for one 5000 coupon bond of IV Liberty Loan. to be paid for tomorrow./ Mary C. left in 10:59 for her home./ Pd Katie wages to 8 Oct, 30. Pd Celine by check 1 m. wages due today, 35./ Sheltering Arms annual meeting & managers' at 3:15, 55 John St. Telegr'd inability to attend. 18 Fri: To town in 8:08./ Cheques on Empire Tr. Co. #38 to Chath. for 1500 for 1500 IV Liberty 4 ¼ of which 1000 are thru Mary C. Montgomery & 500 thru Pease & Elliman. #39 to Mertopolitan Tr. Co for 5 M. IV Lib 4 ¼s./ Lunch alone at Eberlin's. / At Metropolitan Trust Co. delivered above ch#39 & rec"d 5 one thousand, coupon IV liberty bonds 4 1/4s numbered 56165 -56169 incl. int. Apr & Oct.15./ Deposited these 5M Liberties in Safe Deposit /. Arranged by telephone with Mr. Marling to take 10M IV Liberty 4 ¼s through Chath. Bk./ To Pok. in 6pm with Kath. Bessie met us there in the Hudson. 19 Sat: Letter from Arthur./ Engaged 15 M IV Liberty 4 ¼s coupon thru the National Bank of Rhinebeck by telephone./ John Wasch called in p.m. & p'd me 100 on account rent of Beekman House farm that he rents. 21 Mon: To town in 8:08./ Lunch alone at Eberlin's./ Left one of the very old violins (Klotz)? at Gemunders to be put in shape to lend to Laurier./ #40 Empire Trust Co. 15000 to Rh. Nat. Bank for 15 M Liberties 4 ¼./ Delivered #41 & rec'd receipt from Chath./ Mailed #40 to bank at Rh./ To Pok. in 6 o'clock. Dined on board. 25 Fri: To town in 8:08./ Lunched HEM at Eberlin's./ Thru HEM &Co. bght 20000 City of Newark 5s for [blank] on 4 .60 basis. Notified Murphy of need of trustee check on Monday to pay for above./ Miss Marion Hull arr'd chez nous on a visit./ Quite warm./ Watch at 2:40 +10"/ Read papers & dined at Yacht Club./ To Pok. in 7:45. Met there by Bessie & Miss Marion Hull in the Hudson. 26 Sat: News came that Celine,at the apartment, had the Spanish influenza & pneumonia./ Kath to town in 9:35./ Telephoned to Nettie that Kath had better return at once. She did on the 4:03 train from N.Y. / Letter from Hambley. / Bessie & Marion Hull visited Miss Cruger & Miss Hunt/ Moved hands of clock& watch back one h to standard time. In the case of the clock on stairs, I affected the change by stopping it for one h. 29 Tues: Miss Marion Hull left in 3:47 train for N.Y./ Kath & I to PO for evening mail. |
Language of Material |
English |
People |
Lynch, Elizabeth "Rab" Montgomery (1867-1938) Montgomery, Mary C. (1883 - 1980) Morton, Helen (1876-1952) Roosevelt, Sara Delano (Mrs. James R-) (1854-1941) Strubin, Celine Suckley, Robert Bowne, Sr. (1856-1921) |
Subjects |
Bonds Investments |
Legal Status |
Property of Wilderstein Historic Site |