Describes a letter received from Dillon Mapother. Transcription: got $50 from him, and yet refuses to come. ? Alf [Waud] says also that ?ǣa doctor supposes Mary [Brainard] in the family way. ? A word or two of [Joseph] Brightly, who is in Boston, and generally repudiated. / Saw Sol [Eytinge], W. W. [William Waud] and [Jesse] Haney down-town. By 6 to Grand Street, supping with [] Banks, he subsequently aiding me in an English-Spanish dialogue for my story. He appeared friendly, and to greater advantage than wont, I thought. This till 10, then he leaving me at Reade St. I don ?t sleep over
Describes a letter received from Dillon Mapother. Transcription: got $50 from him, and yet refuses to come. ? Alf [Waud] says also that ?ǣa doctor supposes Mary [Brainard] in the family way. ? A word or two of [Joseph] Brightly, who is in Boston, and generally repudiated. / Saw Sol [Eytinge], W. W. [William Waud] and [Jesse] Haney down-town. By 6 to Grand Street, supping with [] Banks, he subsequently aiding me in an English-Spanish dialogue for my story. He appeared friendly, and to greater advantage than wont, I thought. This till 10, then he leaving me at Reade St. I don ?t sleep over well o ?nights, now; lie listening to the clocks, and thinking of much. What a kind earnest face, was that of yours Hannah Bennett, and how will I remember its look ? Ah, my God, &mdsh; nearly 30, and hoping, only hoping yet ?-?! But I willwin her! 15. Thursday. A kindly letter from Dillon Mapother, the which I deserve not, as his last is yet unanswered. [Henry] Hart still an ?ǣuncompromising old Bachelor, ? spite of rumor to the contrary. ?ǣSic transit amor hominum. Yatman vegetating at Harrisburgh Pa, wherefrom he writes ?ǣa letter speaking in glowing terms of a beautiful girl with whom he has been out riding. ? Upon which Dillon apotrophiseth ?ǣpoor Mollie Mc Mullen! ? / Down town at dinner. Looked in at [Frank] Leslie ?s two places, but found him not within. A sunny, mild day, Glancing at a Nassau Street print shop window I saw a picture gave me a sensation like to a sharp physical pain at the heart. It was the London News cut of the funeral of [Duke of] Wellington. It hung over the wasling stand in my bed-room at Chacombe, and every morning I contemplated it. Writing on, with Title: Thomas Butler Gunn Diaries: Volume 7, page 170, November 14-15, 1855 . 14 November 1855. Gunn, Thomas Butler, 1826-1903
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