Mentions visiting Davis and speaking with his mother-in-law Mrs. Kerrigan. Transcription: acquaintance with [Arthur] Mason, & that ?s all ? at present. Albert Brown ?s going to New Orleans ? George [Brown] is sick. 27. Friday. Drawing. [Alfred] Waud in my room awhile. Down town, calls at the Reveille & Lantern Offices, to Brooklyn, returned, room & drawing. Waud came up at 3 1/2, out with him with intent to bathe at Staten Island, but by the time we had reached Trinity Church, heavy rain drops forewarned us of coming storm. Return, call at [William] Roberts, there awhile with him, to room a
Mentions visiting Davis and speaking with his mother-in-law Mrs. Kerrigan. Transcription: acquaintance with [Arthur] Mason, & that ?s all ? at present. Albert Brown ?s going to New Orleans ? George [Brown] is sick. 27. Friday. Drawing. [Alfred] Waud in my room awhile. Down town, calls at the Reveille & Lantern Offices, to Brooklyn, returned, room & drawing. Waud came up at 3 1/2, out with him with intent to bathe at Staten Island, but by the time we had reached Trinity Church, heavy rain drops forewarned us of coming storm. Return, call at [William] Roberts, there awhile with him, to room again & then together to Brooklyn, by the Fulton Ferry, to Grays Bath, where I had a swim, Waud declining having in stumbling hurt his leg & wounded trouser. Sitting on the quay, watching the sunset, supped on peaches [words crossed out] & gingerbread. Up Front Street, rambled to the place where Waud & Davis bathe in the morning, ? big ships & outbuildings forming a space sheltered from observation. Called on Davis, sat talking with him, (his mother-in-law ?ǣMrs Kerrigan, ? good-tempered old Irishwoman in bed, the while,) then with Waud, at his invite to his room ? lodging. A neat white-washed room, bed in it & little else, into which we speedily deposited ourselves. (By the bye, walking down Courtlandt Street, at 1 1/2 this morning, I was pulled by my head-gear from the window of a passing omnibus, which stopping, out came Albert Brown, who Title: Thomas Butler Gunn Diaries: Volume 5, page 23, August 26-27, 1852 . 26 August 1852. Gunn, Thomas Butler, 1826-1903
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