Comments on his work and telling snake stories with Homer Hall. Transcription: [Homer] Hall returned from Genessee, with the news that his father [Elisha Hall] and Cross would follow. Sate with us the remainder of the day. 17. Thursday. At work on the mahogany block and ?ǣEra ?s ? poster all the livelong day. Rain out o ?doors. Alf [Waud] gilding the frames for Mrs Dob [Elizabeth Dobson] ?s picture, and Homer Hall mostly with us, reading Boccace [Giovanni Boccaccio]. Evening, he and [Arthur] Mason in our room, also Davis the sailor turned Gilder, whom I and Alf visited in Brooklyn. He helping
Comments on his work and telling snake stories with Homer Hall. Transcription: [Homer] Hall returned from Genessee, with the news that his father [Elisha Hall] and Cross would follow. Sate with us the remainder of the day. 17. Thursday. At work on the mahogany block and ?ǣEra ?s ? poster all the livelong day. Rain out o ?doors. Alf [Waud] gilding the frames for Mrs Dob [Elizabeth Dobson] ?s picture, and Homer Hall mostly with us, reading Boccace [Giovanni Boccaccio]. Evening, he and [Arthur] Mason in our room, also Davis the sailor turned Gilder, whom I and Alf visited in Brooklyn. He helping Alf till 11. 18. Friday. Mahogany block and poster, and rain all day. 19. Saturday. The same every whit. Alf unable to finish his work, defers going ?ǣtill Monday. ? 20. Sunday. Still rain and in-doors. A rhyming letter sent to Hall Senior at Genessee, suggesting the transmission of a cider barrel. Fred [Greatbatch] and Edward [Greatbatch] called in the afternoon. Evening sitting in the kitchen listening to snake stories chiefly told by Homer Hall. He is a hard headed independant fellow, has been engineer on Lake Michigan boats, driven a locomotive on a railroad, a travelling daguerrotypist, dealt in horses, farmed and what not. Has been in every state in the Union, save the new ones on the Pacific. 21. Monday. Down town spite of wet, to [William] Roberts, where I got the block containing [Thomas] Picton ?s portrait, engraved. Took it, and the big mahogany drawing for poster to the ?ǣEra ? Office, saw Tom Frank and left. To Wells and Webbs for blocks, then returning to [177] Canal along the North River. An atmosphere of mud damp and drizzle. Drawing the rest of the afternoon for Alf. He in a devil of a hurry, yet to no purpose, as he could not get the multiplicity of things done in time. Evening sitting imbibing a moderate quencher in the parlor with Homer Hall and Alf. 22. Tuesday. Down town, it being a glorious sunny, breezy day. To the Era Office. Picton not there, but l
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