Describes how he spent his 30th birthday. Transcription: all sorts of little domestic details, (and inventing some) about her [Fanny Fern ?s] husband [James Parton]. 15. Friday. Writing, and very lonely. Feeling a sort of intimation of a return of old horrors, I rushed out and took a walk to the Battery. It was a wintry scene. Boys skating, sledding, or sliding, ice and snow. I think it did me good, my troubled, agitated mind grew calmer, and the cold, clear air didn ?t seem unkindly. Called at Brown ?s the lithographers, and walked up town with [Jesse] Haney. My thirtieth Birthday. 16. Satur
Describes how he spent his 30th birthday. Transcription: all sorts of little domestic details, (and inventing some) about her [Fanny Fern ?s] husband [James Parton]. 15. Friday. Writing, and very lonely. Feeling a sort of intimation of a return of old horrors, I rushed out and took a walk to the Battery. It was a wintry scene. Boys skating, sledding, or sliding, ice and snow. I think it did me good, my troubled, agitated mind grew calmer, and the cold, clear air didn ?t seem unkindly. Called at Brown ?s the lithographers, and walked up town with [Jesse] Haney. My thirtieth Birthday. 16. Saturday. In doors. Abbott up. Came to conclusions with him, by intimating I should detain two blocks, photograph ?s and a money order (for what he owed me) till he cashed up. Down town in the afternoon, and with Haney, Sol [Eytinge] & Brown to see the Winter ?s Tale at Burtons. Very wretchedly played. To the Ornithorincus subsequently. Ill. 17. A Sunday. A walk up the Fifth Avenue. Getting better during the rest of the day. To [] Chapin ?s in the evening, and subsequently to the Edwards ? [745 Broadway]. 18. Monday. A walk. Writing, or trying to all the rest of the day. A letter from [William] Barth. I have had one from Alf [Waud] on Saturday with much matter in it. He is pursued again. His ?ǣwife ?s ? [Mary Brainard ?s] father [Charles Jewell], mother [Celina Jewell] &c in Boston, on their track. Chance aids him wondrously. A mysterious man presumed to be an officer comes and puts up, or rather is desirous of doing so at Alf ?s boarding- Title: Thomas Butler Gunn Diaries: Volume 7, page 204, February 14-18, 1856 . 14 February 1856. Gunn, Thomas Butler, 1826-1903
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