Regarding the women living in his boarding house. Transcription: [Cecilia Trainque] is tallish, buxomish, g ?hal-ish, wears her hair in free and easy not-very-long curls, sports a red josey and exuberant hoops, sings at the piano vociferously and is generally accessible. Two women with Irish faces ? one a widow hight Ham ? tother presumuably a maid hight [Lyddy] Fagan, I ?ve seen but little of. I ?ve never spent a whole evening yet in the parlor. They play euchre principally and detest cards. [James] Morris fribbles at the piano after supper awhile, as after dinner. He and Billington are bo
Regarding the women living in his boarding house. Transcription: [Cecilia Trainque] is tallish, buxomish, g ?hal-ish, wears her hair in free and easy not-very-long curls, sports a red josey and exuberant hoops, sings at the piano vociferously and is generally accessible. Two women with Irish faces ? one a widow hight Ham ? tother presumuably a maid hight [Lyddy] Fagan, I ?ve seen but little of. I ?ve never spent a whole evening yet in the parlor. They play euchre principally and detest cards. [James] Morris fribbles at the piano after supper awhile, as after dinner. He and Billington are both in debt to Mrs [Susan] Boley, the latter for some five weeks board. Morris has little to do, save an occasional article for the Sunday Courier. But he doesn ?t appear at all regularly, his articles stand over. (Mine go in consecutively, of course, and are as regularly paid for.) Morris does the operatic for the Courier, getting nothing for it by but the tickets. Few of Billington ?s articles are accepted by Harpers, by the Atlantic, by the Sunday Times (!) He does something in the teaching way at a ladies school ? I think elocutionary, and is paid quarterly. Apropos of him, here ?s an incident that people would call extravagant in a novel. Abrahams was up in his room one night, when they got to talking on women, and comparing experiences incidentally, found that both of Title: Thomas Butler Gunn Diaries: Volume 11, page 150, November 22, 1859 . 22 November 1859. Gunn, Thomas Butler, 1826-1903
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