Describes his injuries from a fight the previous night. Transcription: Broadway, they came round to [132] Bleecker St to learn our fortune. [Jesse] Haney and [Frank] Cahill, too, went to [George] Arnolds. 4. Wednesday. To the bath room by daylight and washed. Head very much swollen, face the same, a deep cut over or on my right eyebrow, cuts on forehead, marks of boot-nails on cheek and other promiscuous cuts. Jaw very much bruised too. Did plastering and combed hair by un-easy stages. Head frightfully bruised ? well it ?s no worse. Coat sleeve saturated through and through with blood, shirt
Describes his injuries from a fight the previous night. Transcription: Broadway, they came round to [132] Bleecker St to learn our fortune. [Jesse] Haney and [Frank] Cahill, too, went to [George] Arnolds. 4. Wednesday. To the bath room by daylight and washed. Head very much swollen, face the same, a deep cut over or on my right eyebrow, cuts on forehead, marks of boot-nails on cheek and other promiscuous cuts. Jaw very much bruised too. Did plastering and combed hair by un-easy stages. Head frightfully bruised ? well it ?s no worse. Coat sleeve saturated through and through with blood, shirt ditto, vest ditto, pants spotted. Did nothing but read and lay on bed all day. [Fitz James] O ?Brien came at 2 looked seedy, felt the same. Reading ?ǣGuy Livingstone. ? A letter from Dick Bolton. 5. Thursday. Down town in the morning. To Canal St, Post and Pic Office. Saw [Mortimer] Thomson. Reading, drawing and writing. Head sore. It seems the forks got shed on the road, as we only brought one home ? belonging not to us. Arnold came to supper and part of the evening. A rainy night. 6. Friday. In doors, drawing most part of the day. Wurzbach called ? recently returned from Germany where he has been for a year and a half. Talk of the same during the evening. 7. Saturday. Down town in the morning. 8. Sunday. To [] Chapin ?s at night; to Edwards ? [745 Broadway] subsequently. 9. Monday. Drawing all day, save a morning ?s rush to washerwoman. 10. Tuesday. Drawing. In arrears, epistolarily. Have letters from [William] Boutcher, [William] Barth, Dick & George Bolton, [Dillon] Mapother, [Alfred] Waud and Foster ? all unanswered. 11. Wednesday. To Pic Office where I found O ?Brien. He Title: Thomas Butler Gunn Diaries: Volume 9, page 27, November 3-11, 1857 . 3 November 1857. Gunn, Thomas Butler, 1826-1903
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