Comments on Thomas Powell and John Brougham. Transcription: the bye I think I should naturally distrust that man [Thomas Powell] ?s physiognomy. He has a low English face, and an unpleasant sort of deferential way of speaking. / [John] Brougham is a good looking, genial, witty pleasant man, ? with an Irishman ?s appreciation and capacity for drollery. I like him. / Return and at work on the mahogany, Reveille poster, which I finished at 3 1/2, headache, toothache and internal agonizations stomachic-worrying torments the while. To [Cornelius] Mathews with Block. Talk with him. He going with t
Comments on Thomas Powell and John Brougham. Transcription: the bye I think I should naturally distrust that man [Thomas Powell] ?s physiognomy. He has a low English face, and an unpleasant sort of deferential way of speaking. / [John] Brougham is a good looking, genial, witty pleasant man, ? with an Irishman ?s appreciation and capacity for drollery. I like him. / Return and at work on the mahogany, Reveille poster, which I finished at 3 1/2, headache, toothache and internal agonizations stomachic-worrying torments the while. To [Cornelius] Mathews with Block. Talk with him. He going with the stream against [Lajos] Kossuth. Bah! [words crossed out] / Dined at Excelsior, called again at the Lantern Office, then returned, did a drawing on Wood for Story, took it down at night-fall through the sluggishly dripping rain, left it Title: Thomas Butler Gunn Diaries: Volume 4, page 86, April 14, 1852 . 14 April 1852. Gunn, Thomas Butler, 1826-1903
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