Mentions receiving payment for a drawing for the Lantern. Transcription: do, that there ?s considerable humbug about Jenny [Lind]. Was she charitable or politic ? which? Those who knew her, nearly, here, werne ?nt favourable in their notions. And she married a little money loving Jew. 15. Wednesday. Drawing on wood. Reveille subjects. Down town, dined ? waiting at [John N.] Genin ?s during a rain storm. Lantern Office. Post Office, Dickinsons. Return through rain. Called at Mr [Joseph] Greatbatch ?s in the evening. Poor Joe [Greatbatch] ? four or five hundred miles out at sea ? & perchanc
Mentions receiving payment for a drawing for the Lantern. Transcription: do, that there ?s considerable humbug about Jenny [Lind]. Was she charitable or politic ? which? Those who knew her, nearly, here, werne ?nt favourable in their notions. And she married a little money loving Jew. 15. Wednesday. Drawing on wood. Reveille subjects. Down town, dined ? waiting at [John N.] Genin ?s during a rain storm. Lantern Office. Post Office, Dickinsons. Return through rain. Called at Mr [Joseph] Greatbatch ?s in the evening. Poor Joe [Greatbatch] ? four or five hundred miles out at sea ? & perchance very sea sick ? how thinketh he of his four poster at home, now? / Had a letter from [Edward] Heylyn today. A letter from [William] Barth yesterday. 16. Thursday. Drawing on wood till 2. Down town, to the ?ǣSachem ? Office, [Thomas] Picton & some half dozen members of the ?ǣLone Star association there. Picton & [John V.] Wren, (Presidents) attempt to convert me to the cause of filibusterism &c. Imbibition. To the Lantern Office. [Thomas] Powell & [John] Brougham. Sold my drawing getting money for ?t or shouldn ?t have let it go. [words crossed out] By way of explanation for demanding ready cash I intimated the outstanding debt. ?ǣDoes the Lantern owe you $39 says Brougham, [word crossed out]. Powell looked hot & shuffled, [words crossed out] Title: Thomas Butler Gunn Diaries: Volume 5, page 42, September 14-16, 1852 . 14 September 1852. Gunn, Thomas Butler, 1826-1903
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