Mentions that Elizabeth Gouverneur and the Pattens have returned to his boarding house. Transcription: has written acceptation of terms proposed to him, and is progressing with my cuts. Met [George] Arnold the other day. He ?s sub editorializing for the Sunday Mercury. [Frank] Leslie has made a smash ? 'tis well I didn't go to Kansas. No remittances, and nearly a thousand miles from New York, winter coming on, and a wild country would not present a desirable look out. I've written to Mr [Joseph] Greatbatch. Also to Hannah [Bennett] ? (bless her!) Went over to [James] Parton ?s with [Jesse]
Mentions that Elizabeth Gouverneur and the Pattens have returned to his boarding house. Transcription: has written acceptation of terms proposed to him, and is progressing with my cuts. Met [George] Arnold the other day. He ?s sub editorializing for the Sunday Mercury. [Frank] Leslie has made a smash ? 'tis well I didn't go to Kansas. No remittances, and nearly a thousand miles from New York, winter coming on, and a wild country would not present a desirable look out. I've written to Mr [Joseph] Greatbatch. Also to Hannah [Bennett] ? (bless her!) Went over to [James] Parton ?s with [Jesse] Haney on Thursday night. A somewhat dull evening. Fortune telling and cards. Parton looks ill. I find Haney detests Oliver Dyer ? as I do ? and condemns the ass Perkins. Neither were there. Parton is very good natured ? or weak ? to tolerate that Dyer in his house. The fellow ought to have been born a snake. I don't think Parton ?s marriage is a success. He has paid pretty highly for the [words crossed out] of a woman older than himself. I wonder whether he believes in her now [words crossed out] as much [words crossed out]. Mrs [Elizabeth] Gouverneur's back at our boarding house with her spoiled child, little May. Also [Willis] Patten and his wife. He a had hard-visaged, dogmatic, ill-bred [words crossed out] politician ? an ex-custom house officer and place-seeker. His wife, spare, dark eyed, her hair in curls, good natured, talkative, shrewdd, energetic down easter. I like Title: Thomas Butler Gunn Diaries: Volume 8, page 100, October 28-31, 1856 . 31 October 1856. Gunn, Thomas Butler, 1826-1903
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