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Scope and Content Note

William C. Desmond, a clerk in the Manhattan office of the Society for the Reformation of Juvenile Delinquents, kept this journal.

The volume is labeled "No. 4" on the title page, but no other volumes are extant. Daily entries contain the following information: description of the weather; names of persons requesting passes with name of person visited; names of persons requesting information about inmates; and delivery of correspondence and reports, including the names of the sender and receiver, but no indication of contents.