Regarding Henry Clapp's Saturday Press. Transcription: ?ǣGetty [Gay] ? and the one strumpet tattled this of the other. [Charles] Gaylor had to do with this ?ǣGetty ? in the ?ǣOrnithorynchus ? days. I think he quarreled with Ed. Wilkins of the Herald about her. She brought to the Pic once, when [Frank] Cahill assumed the part of editor, Mort Thomson being out. Cahill flattered her, and I believe on Mort ?s condemning the article as bosh, paid for it himself. He was on the scent after carrion, too. All ?ǣwhores and rogues ? like Gonzalo ?s kingdom. To return to the Saturday Press. [H
Regarding Henry Clapp's Saturday Press. Transcription: ?ǣGetty [Gay] ? and the one strumpet tattled this of the other. [Charles] Gaylor had to do with this ?ǣGetty ? in the ?ǣOrnithorynchus ? days. I think he quarreled with Ed. Wilkins of the Herald about her. She brought to the Pic once, when [Frank] Cahill assumed the part of editor, Mort Thomson being out. Cahill flattered her, and I believe on Mort ?s condemning the article as bosh, paid for it himself. He was on the scent after carrion, too. All ?ǣwhores and rogues ? like Gonzalo ?s kingdom. To return to the Saturday Press. [Henry] Clapp generally does an impudent, flippant, Frenchy tainted editorial in paragraphs of one sentence each, the rest is Ada Clare, Getty Gay, [] Banks (and brays) [George] Arnold &c &c. Wilkin ?s provides a ?ǣfeulleton, ? brilliant, cool, impudent and amusing, reading like a translation from the French, and all the rest of the p writers imitate him. The paper is a mere swindle on advertisers, principally publishers, the circulation being nominal. Clapp talks each week of his going round to borrow money to purchase paper. Frank Wood ?ǣan evaporating dish ? of a young man, as [Jesse] Haney characterized him, paid Clapp $25 of [Henry or William] Stephen ?s money for suggesting the title of Vanity Fair. I fancy the little literary Gorilla is a good deal believed in by Wood; his inconceivable Title: Thomas Butler Gunn Diaries: Volume 11, page 162, November 29, 1859 . 29 November 1859. Gunn, Thomas Butler, 1826-1903
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