Pennsylvania, 1904-1905

File — Box: 5, Volume: 22

Identifier: II

Staff Only

Scope and Contents

Douglass worked at the Carnegie Museum in Pittsburgh.

8 June 1904--"I am happy most of the time now. I have to economize with extreme care since I made my last venture [he has purchased a house and now a lot in anticipation of his forthcoming marriage] .... For example I have only 7 or 8 dollars to last me 2 weeks and 3 of that I owe if the man comes after it. . . .It was for plumbing .... Well I have 2 meal tickets, $1.55 at Kings and $2.05 at the Cozy. So I may make it. This is not reckoning the $4.10 for the first weekly payment on my lot."
29 July 1904--"One of my greatest troubles now is absent mindedness about little things. I must break myself of it."
31 July 1904--"I have gotten along splendidly with my writing on my new paper. ... I have a chance to work now and I am going to work. If I can do the work I have to do I can get where they cannot hold me here unless they pay me a decent salary. . . . Dr. Holland treated me curiously tonight and it was a surprise to me but I probably deserve it. ... I have been too quiet and retiring. Such people are always looked down on."
18 September 1904--"I have begun to take the story writing course with the West Press Association and my time is well occupied."
20 February 1905--"A short time ago I recd a check from Mines & Minerals to pay for my article in that magazine, Source of Gold in Alder Gulch. It was for $21.50 the first money I ever recd for writing."

Dates

1904-1905

Language of Materials

From the Collection: Collection materials are in English.

Conditions Governing Access

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