Describes a visit from the Greatbatch family. Transcription: 5. Wednesday. Mercantile &c. I have let [Thomas] Powell and Abbott ? (the leading spirits of a new attempt at a ?comic ? wire-pulling paper ? started with the intent to get money out of George Law by putting him into the presidency,) have $8 worth of cuts, on prospect of future payment. Wurzbach engraves for them, and they owe him some $60. The paper ?s a trashy one, the cuts hitherto done by Rosenburgh ? the ?ǣJenkins ? of the Morning Post, in the days of Jerrold ?s sarcasm. He is a drunken, loud talking literary loafer. I ?ve
Describes a visit from the Greatbatch family. Transcription: 5. Wednesday. Mercantile &c. I have let [Thomas] Powell and Abbott ? (the leading spirits of a new attempt at a ?comic ? wire-pulling paper ? started with the intent to get money out of George Law by putting him into the presidency,) have $8 worth of cuts, on prospect of future payment. Wurzbach engraves for them, and they owe him some $60. The paper ?s a trashy one, the cuts hitherto done by Rosenburgh ? the ?ǣJenkins ? of the Morning Post, in the days of Jerrold ?s sarcasm. He is a drunken, loud talking literary loafer. I ?ve looked into this ?ǣYoung Sam ? office once or twice and seen the clique assembled, and once, (wanting to see Powell about a book of Willis ?s needed in our Contemplation) I found them in a liquor saloon ? old Powell looking hot and jaded, and the rest bawling drunkenly in the rear. What a horrid life ?-?! [George] Arnold and [George] Yewell up ? the latter having returned some three weeks from Iowa. He ?s had a prosperous time there, and purchased land. Designs, in conjunction with Arnold taking rooms at his old Broadway place. In the evening I was at [James] Parton ?s, occupied in sketching Colonel [Hugh] Forbes in divers attitudes for illustrations to his book. He is a character whom I must put down at leisure, anon. 6. Thursday. First Edward Greatbatch, and then his mother [Mary Anne Greatbatch] and father [Joseph Greatbatch] up. The latter being in New York both to receive the $2000 accruing from his mother ?s legacy, and if possible to settle matters with Alcock about farm &c. They (Mr G, and Mary Anne) had to make many purchases, and had them sent up in my room. I to the Mercantile, passing Title: Thomas Butler Gunn Diaries: Volume 7, page 179, December 5-6, 1855 . 5 December 1855. Gunn, Thomas Butler, 1826-1903
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