Regarding the Bradbury family being expelled from Susan Boley's boarding house. Transcription: go, [Jesse] Haney, [Edward] Wells, [Thomas] Nast and [Charles] Honeywell there, and [James] Parton, some of whose half-brothers are in town. His mother has been twice married, her second husband (an American) proving a knave and deserting her. 9. Saturday. Writing &c. Down town in the afternoon; to Century Office, got $10, to Pic Office got nothing. In doors during the evening. This day the Bradbury's leave the house, getting their walking papers at the hands of the land-lady [Susan Boley], and leav
Regarding the Bradbury family being expelled from Susan Boley's boarding house. Transcription: go, [Jesse] Haney, [Edward] Wells, [Thomas] Nast and [Charles] Honeywell there, and [James] Parton, some of whose half-brothers are in town. His mother has been twice married, her second husband (an American) proving a knave and deserting her. 9. Saturday. Writing &c. Down town in the afternoon; to Century Office, got $10, to Pic Office got nothing. In doors during the evening. This day the Bradbury's leave the house, getting their walking papers at the hands of the land-lady [Susan Boley], and leaving behind them much the same reputation in they effected during the former dynasty [Catharine Potter's]. I expected the result but dropped not a word in aid of it, leaving people to make their own discoveries. The girl Anna [Bradbury] on the influx of a new household of boarders was in great glory ? especially as they were mostly men. She projected herself at them after her usual rampant style, cried 'O Mr This! and 'O Mr That!' at table, laughed, shrugged her shoulders grimaced, talked loud, lay in wait for them collectively and individually on the staircase, sat in window seats with them of evenings and much more, besides invading their chambers. (She pulled open the door while one man was dressing, calling to a woman boarder to come and see!) I preserved my usual taciturnity towards the family, was favored twice or thrice with visits in my room from the girl who always came to beg or Title: Thomas Butler Gunn Diaries: Volume 11, page 42, July 8-9, 1859 . 8 July 1859. Gunn, Thomas Butler, 1826-1903
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