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(NEW YORK CITY.) [Leffingwell, Adolphus H.] Diary of a young banker. [149] manuscript pages. 4to, original 1/2 calf, front board detached; contents clean, several related clippings tipped in. New York and elsewhere, 1 January 1864 to 7 February 1869
Adolphus Henry Leffingwell (1831-1869) was an unmarried young banker in Manhattan. His rather terse diary shows his involvement in Freemasonry, and he frequently accompanies various women to the theater or ice skating. Though he was of fighting age, the war is scarcely noted. He files a draft exemption on 25 June 1864--possibly due to poor health. He attends a McClellan meeting on 10 August 1864. He came from an old New Haven, CT family and frequently visited New England. Though the diary is unsigned, the author can be identified by his May 16 birthday (noted in 1868), and by his mention of the 1866 deaths of his uncles Reuben Withers and Augustus Russell Street (a major benefactor of Yale). The diary ends on 7 February 1869 after a long period of increasingly bad health; he died on 16 February.
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