Regarding Elizabeth Gouverneur's marriage to Theodore Griffin. Transcription: [diffi]culty and spent the afternoon with him [Frank Pounden] in a front basement, where he and his wife, the two children and a nurse were, the former ?ǣnagging ? him a little, as of old. Little Annie Giles, that pretty, healthy-looking child! ? is dead, of scarlet fever. A ladle-full of gossip derived from Mrs [Catharine] Potter, one Sunday morning, when I chanced to call, not finding [Jesse] Haney at home. Mrs [Elizabeth] Gouverneur is married to a Mr [Theodore] Griffin, brother to Julia and Weighty, and landlor
Regarding Elizabeth Gouverneur's marriage to Theodore Griffin. Transcription: [diffi]culty and spent the afternoon with him [Frank Pounden] in a front basement, where he and his wife, the two children and a nurse were, the former ?ǣnagging ? him a little, as of old. Little Annie Giles, that pretty, healthy-looking child! ? is dead, of scarlet fever. A ladle-full of gossip derived from Mrs [Catharine] Potter, one Sunday morning, when I chanced to call, not finding [Jesse] Haney at home. Mrs [Elizabeth] Gouverneur is married to a Mr [Theodore] Griffin, brother to Julia and Weighty, and landlord of the Niagara hotel I stopped at last summer. She has been there all the season, flirting with the entire village, even with her coachman and waiters, and vampiring Miss [Lucia] Cooper after her old fashion. The newly-wed couple are in town, at a hotel, and Griffin has reported himself to Mrs Pot; not so his wife, who owes a bill there for her retained rooms and Rawson [Gill] ?s feed, and of course disputes it. Mrs Griffin took her husband to the clothing store where Eldredge has employment and made Mr G try on ?ǣabout forty coats ? until he told her he had selected the one he liked, bidding her do the like. She goes to Niagara to live at the hotel. May [Gouverneur] has been made over to the Gouverneurs. Gladdy [Gouverneur] (who was certainly [Adolphus] Gouverneur ?s bastard, while Gill was living, hence the money bequeathed to him) has assumed the Title: Thomas Butler Gunn Diaries: Volume 11, page 158, November 29, 1859 . 29 November 1859. Gunn, Thomas Butler, 1826-1903
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