Mentions that William Waud has been hired to draw for Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper. Transcription: Will Waud employed by [Frank] Leslie it was merely manner. He [Charles Briggs] communicates further with us, when he has talked with his intended business man. Out by 5 1/2, and up-town. To bed early, being tired out. 7. Wednesday. Will Waud, who has made an engagement to draw for Frank Leslie, leaves here to reside in Brooklyn, with his brother-in-law. He has determined on leaving Boston, proposes only to return to it to wind up business matters; wants his wife [Sarah Waud] to stay ther
Mentions that William Waud has been hired to draw for Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper. Transcription: Will Waud employed by [Frank] Leslie it was merely manner. He [Charles Briggs] communicates further with us, when he has talked with his intended business man. Out by 5 1/2, and up-town. To bed early, being tired out. 7. Wednesday. Will Waud, who has made an engagement to draw for Frank Leslie, leaves here to reside in Brooklyn, with his brother-in-law. He has determined on leaving Boston, proposes only to return to it to wind up business matters; wants his wife [Sarah Waud] to stay there for the present, ?ǣas she and brother-in-law ?s wife don ?t agree together. ? Will is much the same as heretofore, perhaps more so, the family failing of self-will disagreeably manifested in his way of expressing his opinions, yet Alf [Waud] ?s estimate of him will admit of modification. ?ǣOur friends and enemies draw us, and I often think both portraits are like. ? Scribbling all the wet, dreary miserable day and drawing on wood at night, till 12, then for an hour, in [Arthur] Ledger ?s room, with him and [George] Boweryem. Both got autobiographical. Here ?s the former ?s second voyage (I am only anticipating a task I expect to have to do at length in the ensuing summer ? writing his entire biography for publication. He has sent for the requisite materials from England. Last advices rendered his stay in this country definite until the end of July, when he will recross the Atlantic, to Title: Thomas Butler Gunn Diaries: Volume 12, page 90, March 6-7, 1860 . 6 March 1860. Gunn, Thomas Butler, 1826-1903
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