Describes his journey by railroad and the steamboat Mayflower on Lake Erie. Transcription: as they do, setting my very heart athirst for thee [Charlotte Whytal Kidder]! I went back to my room, taking a little food at Erfords, and then sat up until 2 in the morning, doing a score of things. . 9. Tuesday . . .preparing to going off. Then lay down, but slept not at all. Up by 4, and everything down, through a street or two of the slumbering city, (not without thought of what I had seen in these four years space, here;) and feeling that the time would be when all this present would be byegone, al
Describes his journey by railroad and the steamboat Mayflower on Lake Erie. Transcription: as they do, setting my very heart athirst for thee [Charlotte Whytal Kidder]! I went back to my room, taking a little food at Erfords, and then sat up until 2 in the morning, doing a score of things. . 9. Tuesday . . .preparing to going off. Then lay down, but slept not at all. Up by 4, and everything down, through a street or two of the slumbering city, (not without thought of what I had seen in these four years space, here;) and feeling that the time would be when all this present would be byegone, all, [Alfred] Waud, [William] Boutcher, acquaintances, strugglings, lovings, New-York journalizings &c ? all off the scene, now so crowded. I wonder what Mary Bilton is thinking about this morning? / Aboard the boat, and across to the Erie Railroad. I ?ve travelled this route twice ere this, so shall say no word about it now. The day wore on as usual with its infinite beauties of sunlight variations. At Hornellsville [Hornell] I branched off for Buffalo, there to the ?ǣMayflower ? steamboat, aboard which I was soon plowing the waters of Lake Erie. The boat was densely crowded, and I anticipated passing the night on six inches of table, as the Steward intimated. But my avocation as ?ǣ[New York] Times Correspondent ? which had effected marvels of civility by the way, failed not here. It got me a supper and the snuggest of state rooms, while less happy mortals couldn ?t purchase the latter at any price. I was glad, being very weary. Five or six hundred miles of travel and two busy sleepless days proceeding it had tired me out. After head washing and cleaning &c I went to bed despite singing going on at a piano in the open saloon from Title: Thomas Butler Gunn Diaries: Volume 6, page 52, August 8-9, 1853 . 8 August 1853. Gunn, Thomas Butler, 1826-1903
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