Diary of US patent clerk Horatio Nelson Taft.
    

“Despairing applicants for office are telegraphing to their friends to come & help them.”—Horatio Nelson Taft

SATURDAY, MARCH 23, 1861.

Warm comfortable day today with indications of rain towards night. Nothing of note occured in the office. No Comr yet. A great many removals in the Pension Office, and a clamorous crowd ready to fill vacancies. The City is yet quite full of strangers. Despairing applicants for office are telegraphing to their friends to come & help them. Was in at Willards & Kirkwoods, bought a cravat at Berglings and the papers at [French & Richsteins?], and came home about 9 o’ck, read till 11.


The three diary manuscript volumes, Washington during the Civil War: The Diary of Horatio Nelson Taft, 1861-1865, are available online at The Library of   Congress.

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