This is delightful weather—hope it will be the same all the week as the Horticultural Exhibition commences on Wednesday and will last till Friday evening. This is always a splendid affair. Took a walk this evening and met an old acquaintance and schoolmate W.H. Guest.
The twenty-first exhibition of the Pennsylvania Horticultural Society will begin on September 12 at the Chinese Museum.
The 1850 U. S. census lists a William Guest, machinist, age 24, boarding with the family of John L. Adams in Spring Garden (then a separate municipality).
Clerk and the City 