which he has presented to mamma. Walk’d out and bought some shoe-ribbon. Met Cresin who wishes to have more engravings done. Mrs. Hall, one of our former nurses, called upon me to get a character & certificate of her behaviour while in the Hospital; told me that after Stymets’ decease she applied to Alderman Furman for her wages, who refus’d to pay her and on her further importunity threaten’d to send her to Bridewell.* Said she was in a great hurry for her money, and asked her what she would do when that was expended. I gave my testimony that she conducted herself soberly & honestly while nurse. I return’d to the Hospital before 3. Mary Brown had died, 2 Discharged. I spent near an hour in playing the Violin.
   November 5th. This morning I went to town. Call’d at Reid’s (Bookseller) who urg’d me to hurry on the Hieroglyphic engravings. I went home and once more began to use my engraving tools, now growing rusty. Before three o’clock P.M. I

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*The Bridewell was on the west side of the City hall, in the Park, and was the common jail. It was a small structure of gray stone, two stories high, besides the basement. It was an object of terror to those who were likely to be imprisoned there, beyond what an ordinary jail would be, as jail fevers in that building were frequently very destructive.