Describes a visit to the Phalanx in New Jersey with George Boweryem. Transcription: The ?ǣPhalanx ? in New Jersey. who set us right and bore us company till within fifteen minutes walk of the ?ǣPhalanx. ? This place originated fifteen or more years ago in an attempt at carrying out [Charles] Fourier ?s communistic projects, a number of people purchasing land and erecting buildings on it, of which the biggest now forms the present hotel. Brisbane, [Horace] Greeley and others of that ilk had a good deal to do with it. George Arnold spent some years of his boy-hood here, his father being always
Describes a visit to the Phalanx in New Jersey with George Boweryem. Transcription: The ?ǣPhalanx ? in New Jersey. who set us right and bore us company till within fifteen minutes walk of the ?ǣPhalanx. ? This place originated fifteen or more years ago in an attempt at carrying out [Charles] Fourier ?s communistic projects, a number of people purchasing land and erecting buildings on it, of which the biggest now forms the present hotel. Brisbane, [Horace] Greeley and others of that ilk had a good deal to do with it. George Arnold spent some years of his boy-hood here, his father being always an ismy man. The project came to an end in due time, but the place retains some of its associations yet; people who dwelt there visit it in summer, as a pleasant sojourn in easy access to the city. Saw Warren the landlord, a Jerseyman, and very much so, and a tall, white-haired English resident; got a rere-supper of eggs and bacon and by 10 to-bed, in a capacious, double-bedded room on the ground-floor. The night was cold and dank and tranquil and the wind blew occasionally. 20. Sunday. A breezy but very sunny day. Breakfast, with landlord, [George] Boweryem, Englishman, a Mr. and Mrs. Baldwin from New York; latter nice-looking, her husband conversible, and an old lady, other to Warren ?s partner, English-born. Loafing about. Joined by [Edmund] Stedman, who had Title: Thomas Butler Gunn Diaries: Volume 12, page 213, May 19-20, 1860 . 19 May 1860. Gunn, Thomas Butler, 1826-1903
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