Monday Feb 11

Brought all my things
home from Mendel's where
I lived until now,

Bought some neccessities
for my own use,

I am arranging my little
lone 2 room apartment,

I see I'll have yet to do
lots of work until everything
is in shape.

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This is the first time he's mentioned "Mendel," who is clearly the person he's boarding with, but we don't know much else about him. He's probably a friend or even the owner of a more formal boarding facility (my sense, after visiting with the people at the Tenement Museum, is that Papa was just renting a cot in someone's living room or kitchen). In any event, the apartment mentioned here is where Papa lived until he met my grandmother.