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1864 calendar [ii-iii]
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End matter [1 - Memoranda]
End matter [2 - Cash Account January]
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Poor Richard's reasons for buying United States' securities [16]
Enclosure: "My Bible"; "Evening brings us home" [17]
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Started for [Brandy Station] to express several packages of money. Expressed for R. Gibson 12 [r. NY.] 80 Dolls L R. Willson [illegible] [Henry Wright]$150 + $15,500 Nothing of importance today had to go to Brandy Station to express money. Time to count a Billion Suppose one could count 200 in a minute an hour would produce 12,00 a day 288,000. and 365 days 105,120,000 to count a Billion would require [15]-12 years 34 days, 5 hours, 120 minutes according to the [above] rule. ------------------------------ Feb.29, Monday. Started for Brandy Station to express several packages of money. Expressed for R. Gibson 126 NY 80 dolls to R. Willson of Middletown (?) Henry Wryght $50 & $55.00. March, 1. Tuesday. Nothing of importance today. Had to go to Brandy Station [1.] to express money. Time to Count to a Million Suppose one could count 200 in a minute. An hour would produce 12.000. A day 288,000 and 365 days 105,200,000. To count a billion would require 9.55 years, 34 days, 5 hours & 20 minutes according to the above rule. Note: 1. Brandy Station is on the Orange & Alexandria RR. About 8 miles east of Culpepper Court House Va. Crooks, Terence G. “Transcribed and Annotated Diaries of Henry Oliver Nightingale.” Unpublished manuscript, 2014. Microsoft Word file.
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Henry O. Nightingale diary, 1864
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