Memoranda
addresses
name. | residence. |
Mrs. O. J. Reeve | San Jose, Cal. |
formerly Cora Talbot | 740 S. Third St. |
Miss Olive E. Reeve | [740 S. Third St.]1 formerly Willoughby, Ohio |
Photographic Studio | 838 Market Street “Elite” |
Jones & Lotz | |
Mrs. C. Dow | 2225. Pacific Avenue San Francisco, Cala. begin with Dec. 1. 1888 Sub. one year (unpaid) [p. 391] {p. 394} |
memoranda
1888
date. | dolls. | cts. | |
Jan. 2. | Received letter from Belle <& New Year’s Card> | ||
4 | Received letter from Belle2 | ||
Card from Dot | |||
27 Jan. |
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| Lent A Century of Dishonor to Br. Hill Indian Interpreter | ||
Feb. 27 |
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" | The Long Run by Miss Cleveland [returned]3 | ||
" | |||
March 1 | Lent Mrs. Howard The Spanish Gipsey |
[p. 393]{p. 395}
Borrowed from Belle M. Sears in San Francisco 25,00
to be deposited after my return home in the Deseret National Bank [p. 394] {p. 396}
memoranda
1888.
date. | dolls. | cts. | |
Nov. 8 | Lent Zine S. Whitney when in San Francisco for sundries | 1 | 00 |
" | ticket to Monteray | 7 | 50 |
" | Expemses at Del Monte | 5, | 00 |
" | carriage to big trees | 2. | 00 |
" | Telegram | 1 | 00 |
" | Sundries | 2, | 00 |
" | Total | 18 | 50 |
16 | Paid on account | 10 | 00 |
" | Remainder due | 8, | 50 |
[p. 395] {p. 397}
1888 notes and bills
date. | drawers. | time. |
Oct. | Mrs. Harriet [Bennell] Wilson Sandy for Juvenile Instructor | 2.00 |
Orden on Juvenile from Sarah [Ann Sweet] Sudweeks Circleville | 2,00 | |
Paid me by | ||
Oct. 30 | Mrs. Eliza Platt on 1887 | 1.00 |
Mrs. Geo. H. Taylor | 2.00 |
[p. 396] {p. 398}
receivable.
gift for Annie | X tea set |
Mell | |
Daisie | |
Verona | scarf |
John Q. | X silk handkerchief |
Emmeline [Young Wells] | |
Esther [Davey Watson] & Jessie [Davey Brimley] | |
Talulah [Young Wood] | |
S. G. [Sarah Griffith] Richards | X |
Sarah Jane [Jenne] Cannon | |
Geo. Q. Cannon Jun. | Rose leaf jar |
Margaret [Cannon] | |
Sanford [Sandford W. Hedges] | box |
[p. 397] {p. 399}
cash account—january.
received.4 | paid. | ||||||
1 | Cheese & Cakes | 45 | Q. Annie <John Q.> | , | 85 | ||
2 | cakes | 35 | |||||
Flowers for the <dead> | 10. | 00 | Envelopes | 20 | |||
4 | magazines | , | 65 | book Q. | 30 | ||
5 | Candy | 50 | pants & oranges | 1, | 85 | ||
carfare Ellen [Hitchings] | 10. | cts. | Wages | 2, | 50 | ||
6 | Books & cards <pie 5 cts.> | 1. | 70 | washing | 3. | 25 | |
Apples | 50 | cts. | |||||
1 | candles & wine | 65 | coffee | . | 35 | ||
10 | wages Ellen | 2. | 50 | cake | , | 50 | |
11 | paper & envelopes | 50 | London Journal | 10 | |||
12 | Books for <Mell> | 50 | |||||
Paper | |||||||
Jan. 1888 | Incidental Expenses in the Office | 27. | 03 | ||||
Jan. <1888> | House Expenses | 34. | 20 | ||||
[Jan. 1888]5 | Personal [Expenses]6 | 23. | 05 | ||||
Expense Total | 84. | 28 |
[p. 400] {p. 400}
cash account—january.
received. | paid. | ||||||
<Tuesday night> | 2 | ,25 | |||||
3 | oysters & supper | 1 | 00 |
[p. 401] {p. 401}
cash account—may.
received. | paid. | ||||||
13 | cake ice cream candy | 2 | 80 |
[p. 408] {p. 402}
received. | paid. | ||||||
Daisie | 5. | 00 | |||||
stockings <50> laces <90>, mitts <90> gloves 150 1 | 4. | 80 | |||||
Mitts for Verona <90> paper <40> cash | 2 | 90 | |||||
31. | Receipt Book | 2 | .50 | ||||
31. | wood & coal & raspberries | 1. | 60 | ||||
Bread buns nuts | . | 55 |
[p. 409] {p. 403}
cash account—june.
received. | paid. | ||||||
1 | Bread <15> cheese <25> pie <10> | ||||||
" | berries <25> ice cream <50> | 1. | 35 | ||||
" | ham < | .20 | |||||
2 | Meat berries cake bread | 1. | 55 | ||||
" | coffee <45> bacon <30> eggs <40> wine <75> oranges <40> | ||||||
" | bread <15> coal oil <40> fruit <65> | 3 | 50 | ||||
" | Potatoes | 60 | |||||
" | salmon asparagus bread <& buns> | 90 | |||||
" | Meals Verona & I and soda water for three | 95 | |||||
" | ring for Emmie Wells <Sears> | 2. | 50 | ||||
" | spoon for Brent Sears | 2. | 50 | ||||
" | Washing | 1 | 75 | ||||
" | Verona for ulster | 7. | 00 | ||||
Daisie in letter to Boston | 5. | 00 | |||||
Flowers Bouquet | |||||||
23 | for Mrs. Julia Ward Howe | 1. | 50 | ||||
Basket of flowers | |||||||
26 | Mrs. Julia Ward Howe | 2. | 00 |
[p. 410] {p. 404}
cash account—july
received. | paid. | ||||||
Paid Mell on bedstead | 17. | 00 | |||||
Washing | 2. | 00 | |||||
Gave Verona for cup & saucer | 1 | 00 | |||||
18 | Carriage | ||||||
Paid Swiss woman for cleaning house | |||||||
2 days works | 2. | 00 | |||||
Washing | 1 | 25 | |||||
21. | carriage | 2 | 00 | ||||
| 5 | 00 | |||||
Satine [sateen] & trimmings & making | 9. | 00 | |||||
Sundries | 2. | 25 | |||||
25 | bread cheese etc. | 50 | |||||
26 | sugar coal oil wood eggs | 1. | 60 | ||||
" | Bread sardines cakes | 40 | |||||
" | cucumbers butter tomatoes | 45 | |||||
" | soda water & street car | 40 | |||||
" | paper magazines ink | 1 | 45 | ||||
" | Wrappers & Family Herald | 55 | |||||
" | Bread cakes etc | 1 | 05 | ||||
" | Dinner for Verona & I. | 65 | |||||
30 | pin for Louise [Cannon] | 5. | 50 | ||||
31 | Present for Melvin | 3. | 00 | ||||
Forum | 50 |
[p. 412] {p. 405}
cash account—august.
received. | paid. | ||||||
Aug 1. | Vase for Mell’s Birthday <to be painted> | 2 | 50 | ||||
Bread tea | 25 | ||||||
2 | Paid Mell on bedstead | 8. | 00 | ||||
" | Cake & sardines | 40 | |||||
" | ice for July | 60 | |||||
" | Gave to Verona | 8, | 05 | ||||
" | wood & coal | , | 55 | ||||
" | pic nic for Lake | 1. | 00 | ||||
" | To Mell for Lake |
| 10 | ||||
3 | Verona & fan | 2 | .30 | ||||
" | Verona & Ellen | 1 | 50 | ||||
" | Bread & ginger cakes | 20 | |||||
" | Verona | 30 | |||||
" | wine and eggs & lamp chim<neys> | 95 | |||||
4 | candy, magazines etc. <carriage> | 2 | 00 | ||||
6 | Bread cakes butter ice cream <soda water> | 1 | 30 | ||||
" | Buss Sunday night | 25 | |||||
meat North Western Review7 <(50)> | . | 25 | |||||
washing | 1 | 25 | |||||
dinner <85> bread <5> peaches <20> candles <15> | 1 | 25 | |||||
Herald <5>, butter <30> matches <5> chow chow <45> | 85 | ||||||
Book | 1 | 10 | |||||
Bacon coffee eggs etc | 1 | 35 | |||||
Buns bread pie ice cream | 75 | ||||||
white washing at Mell’s | 4 | 00 | |||||
Sundries & stamps | 1 | 55 |
[p. 414] {p. 406}
cash account—august.
received. | paid. | ||||||
<Aug. 27> | Verona | 5. | 00 | ||||
Fruit for party at [Elizabeth Anderson] Howard’s | 2. | 25 | |||||
Candles, wine, bread Sundries | 2. | 15 | |||||
Mitts & bustle & sundries | 2 | .00 | |||||
wood | 1 | .00 | |||||
supper <25> girls <10> envelopes |
45 | ||||||
candy sundries | 1. | 25 | |||||
20 | sardines <25>, sundries <30> shoes <175> | 2 | 30 | ||||
groceries <1,00> vegetables <60>, meat <35> | 1, | 95 | |||||
Bread butter stamps <180> etc | 2, | 40 | |||||
ice cream <50>, cakes <25>, peaches <20>, tomatoes <10> | 1, | 05 | |||||
Bread <5>, ham <20> stead <20>, mailing <50>, 30 | 1. | 95 | |||||
hauling <125>, bread buns <cakes> coal oil | 1. | 90 | |||||
carriage & mailing & tickets | 3. | 25 | |||||
Bread <10>, fruite <40>, shoes <3.25> milk <5>, | 4. | 00 | |||||
Bread <20>, ice cream <50>, cakes <30>, fruit <50> | 1. | 50 | |||||
soda water & ice cream | 35 | ||||||
Bread <10>, eggs <25>, candles <20> milk <5> carriage <2,00> | 2, | 60 | |||||
tea-kettle & cup <2,00> fruit <85>, cakes <1,65> etc | 5, | 00 | |||||
pictures <2,50> scrap books <1,75>, bread <sundries> | 5. | 50 | |||||
Stockings <M. [Mell] D. [Daisie] V. [Verona]>, Bustle, vails Hat gloves | 7. | 50 | |||||
washing <1,00> bread etc <25> melon <& fruit 45> | 1, | 95 | |||||
carriage <75> guide book– <25> news wrappers | 30 | ||||||
wine <65> bread <15> meat <35> eggs <25> | 1 | 40 | |||||
carriages for graveyard & other places etc. & flowers | 12 | .00 |
[p. 415] {p. 407}
cash account—september.
received. | paid. | ||||||
1 | Bread <10>, spoon for Eugene [S. Sears] <2,00> | 2. | 10 | ||||
3 | History of Watertown | 25 | ,00 | ||||
4 | wagon <25>, carriage <1.00> Bread <5> milk <5> | 1 | 30 | ||||
6 | cakes <5>, Glover <5>, corsets <1,20> | 1 | 30 | ||||
" | Bread <10> milk <3> cakes <15>, candy <25> | 55 | |||||
" | salmon <30> cheese <10>, cakes <10>, Ham <1.60> | 2. | 10 | ||||
" | cleaning <50>, meat <25> eggs <25> bread <10> | 1 | 10 | ||||
dr <1,00> wood <1,00> milk <5 cts.> cakes <45> | 2, | 50 | |||||
10 | ice cream <1.00> carriage <50> flowers <1.00> | 2 | 50 | ||||
" | magazine <25> paper & envelopes <45> | 70 | |||||
pencils <25> satchel <3,00> lace <1,00> | 4, | 25 | |||||
13 | carriage <50> wine <90> repairing watch <2,00> | 3. | 40 | ||||
alcohol <3.00> steak <25> bread & cake <25> | 3. | 50 | |||||
To missionaries who were mobbed <in Tennessee> | 1. | 00 | |||||
Martini for packing | 1. | 50 | |||||
carrying to depot | 50 | ||||||
" | Emeline [Young Wells] <4,50>, & mailing– <50> twice | 5. | 50 | ||||
" | meat <25> bread <10> candles <30>, cakes <20>, butter <30> | 1. | 15 | ||||
" | milk <15> bread <10> cheese <25>, eggs <30> | . | 80 | ||||
Paper, pencils, ink magazines | 1. | 70 | |||||
" | Lippincott’s, Family Herald | , | 55 | ||||
" | to Mrs. [Elizabeth Lisle] Saxon & [Clara Bewick] Colby carriage | 3 | 00 | ||||
baths <50> pictures 2,50, sundries <1,00> | 4. | 00 |
[p. 416] {p. 408}
cash account—october.
received. | paid. | ||||||
3 | carriage bill for September | 6. | 50 |
[p. 418] {p. 409}
cash account—october.
received. | paid. | ||||||
18 | dinner at Provo | 50 | |||||
20. | telegram to Ogden & S.L. | 90 | |||||
21. | dinner at Provo | 50 | |||||
Present for Cal [Clara Wells Hedges] | 50 | ||||||
23. | fares & carriage etc.— | 2. | 50 | ||||
bread eggs grapes butter & <steak> | 2 | 90. | |||||
25 | gone towards birthday | 5. | 00 | ||||
27. | Silver cup and saucer, Present from myself & Annie [Wells Cannon] | 3. | 50 | ||||
bread <10> cakes <45>, cheese <25>, eggs <30> meat <90> | 2. | 00 | |||||
Paid mailing & to Emeline | 5 | 25 | |||||
30 | making dress & trimmings | 20. | 25 | ||||
30 | handkerchiefs & tulle | 2. | 50 | ||||
30. | ticket for San Francisco | ||||||
Paid to Emeline for week <550 current> | 50 | .00 | |||||
and for books for Belle [Whitney Sears] | 9. | 50 |
[p. 419] {p. 410}
cash account—november.
received. | paid. | ||||||
1 | Scarf pin Sep. [Septimus Whitney Sears] | 4. | 50 | ||||
gloves Dot [S. Isabel Sears], Lucile [Sears] & Emmie [Emma W. Sears] <& myself> | 2. | 40 | |||||
handkerchiefs Eugene [Sears] & Brent [E. Brenton Sears] |
| 20 | |||||
3 | cup & saucer | . | 35 | ||||
telegram & Sep, car fare | 95 | ||||||
5 | hand screens & china bowl | 1. | 70 | ||||
Express on dress | 1. | 00 | |||||
7 | cup & saucer | 1. | 25 | ||||
lace <15>. ribbon– <75>. | . | 90 | |||||
8 | Bancroft & Co. Books “Ramona” | 1 | 50 | ||||
" | Studies in Criticism) car fare | . | 10 | ||||
" | Poems by Richard Edwin Day | 2 | 00 | ||||
" | Madcap Stories & toy wagon | . | 55 | ||||
cup & saucer coffee | 65 | ||||||
9 | Repairing Watch | 3. | 00 | ||||
" | Ticket to Monteray [Monterey] | 7. | 50 | ||||
" | Deposit on pictures “Elite” [Studio] | 3 | 00 | ||||
Hat 3.50 feather 1.75 | 5. | 25 | |||||
Car fare 45. memorandum 5 | . | 50 | |||||
Express on trunk | 50 | ||||||
10 | Sep. & Zine [Smoot Whitney] & myself car fare | , | 55 | ||||
Dinner at Lick House San Jose | , | 55 | |||||
" | Bill at Del Monte | 7. | 00 | ||||
11 | porter & bell boy and <glass of> wine | 1. | 00 | ||||
12 | Refreshments & porter | 75 | |||||
" | carriage & breakfast | 2 | .50 |
[p. 420] {p. 411}
cash account—november.
received. | paid. | ||||||
chestnuts & tulle | 50 | ||||||
Lacea Wood box | 50 | ||||||
car fare | 30 | ||||||
cup & saucer | 1 | 25 | |||||
handkerchief | 45 | ||||||
bowls & boxes | 55 | ||||||
box with handle | 30 | ||||||
one piece ribbon | 35 | ||||||
Quinine pills | 35 | ||||||
lace <25> stockings <35> & apron <1,25> | 1 | 85 | |||||
balls <25> & paper <70> & pencils <15> | 1 | 35 | |||||
car fare | 15 | ||||||
Shells at Santa Cruz | 25 | ||||||
Shell, Chinese Fisherman’s huts | , | 05 | |||||
to Porter on train & tea & etc. | 1 | 00 | |||||
butter dish | 65 | ||||||
cups and saucers & scarfs | 2 | .80 | |||||
cup & saucer <45>, handkerchiefs <50> | 95 | ||||||
Guide to San Francisco | 50 | ||||||
car fare <20> | |||||||
coat for Louise | 12 | .50 | |||||
2 handkerchiefs <Sep & John Q.> | 1. | 80 | |||||
sea <90> shells <&> berth ticket <6,00> | 6 | 90 | |||||
21 | car fare <15> oranges <25>, Louise’s Photo. | 2 | 40 | ||||
Churches & Abbie’s for Jessie | 4 | .00 | |||||
Magazines <120> sundries <500> | 6, | 20 |
[p. 421] {p. 412}
cash account—december. 1888
received. | paid. | ||||||
1 | Express from Depot | . | 50 | ||||
Bread & cakes etc. | . | 50 | |||||
Emeline for Office work | 1 | 50 | |||||
coal oil <50> meat <25.> car fare <5> | 80 | ||||||
Bacon <30>, Germade <30>. fish <25> | 85 | ||||||
Bread, <15> candles, <20> crackers <10> | . | 45 | |||||
Potatoes 25, paper 40 | |||||||
By the sea shore <60>, Chinese <1.50>, Snaps <10> | 2, | 20 | |||||
Book “Sweet Nature” | 2 | .25 | |||||
Paper <40>, wrappers <30>, Postal cards <25> | . | 95 | |||||
car fare <15>, bread. <15> eggs <35> butter <35> | 1. | 00 | |||||
8 | magazines <95> By the Sea Shore <60> | 1 | 55 | ||||
10 | Emeline Office work <1,50> meat <25> | 1. | 75 | ||||
10 | Gift for May | 2, | 00 | ||||
7 | Silver tray 3,75 Sundries <30>, | 4 | 05 | ||||
" | coal <4,00> wood <1,00> sugar <1,00> candles <15> | 6. | 15 | ||||
" | meat <.45>, tea, <50> soap 25. bowls 25 | 1. | 45 | ||||
stamps <25> |
[p. 422] {p. 413}
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[1]text: The bracketed information was indicated by ditto marks in the original.
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[2]text: The bracketed information was indicated by ditto marks in the original.
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[3]text: The bracketed information was indicated by ditto marks in the original.
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[4]Although the following entries are listed under the heading “Received,” these items seem to be expenses.
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[5]text: The bracketed information was indicated by ditto marks in the original.
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[6]text: The bracketed information was indicated by ditto marks in the original.
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[7]Perhaps the Northwestern Review, a periodical that was first published in Chicago but moved to Philadelphia in 1875, after which the title was changed to the United States Review. (“R. R. Dearden, Veteran Editor, Passes Away,” Eastern Underwriter [NY], 3 Feb. 1922, 29.)