Describes letters received from his mother, sister Rosa, and half-sister Mary Anne Greatbatch. Transcription: days! Aunt Bessie, too, is sick; her child, a girl of 13, taller than her mother. John Mitchell at Cambridge, Minnie [Mitchell] a governess in the north of England, the rest of the family 'not very prosperous' in Australia ? their fat, selfish mother caring little about them, I trow. A strong item about the Heaths. 'Both' Mrs H's children dead. 'Tilly [Jenkins]' at a finishing school. Rosa [Gunn] writes principally of Albert Smith's Chinese Entertainment. Drawing & writing. A dash at
Describes letters received from his mother, sister Rosa, and half-sister Mary Anne Greatbatch. Transcription: days! Aunt Bessie, too, is sick; her child, a girl of 13, taller than her mother. John Mitchell at Cambridge, Minnie [Mitchell] a governess in the north of England, the rest of the family 'not very prosperous' in Australia ? their fat, selfish mother caring little about them, I trow. A strong item about the Heaths. 'Both' Mrs H's children dead. 'Tilly [Jenkins]' at a finishing school. Rosa [Gunn] writes principally of Albert Smith's Chinese Entertainment. Drawing & writing. A dash at 'Paul Gower.' Up till 2. 23. Wednesday. Drawing till the afternoon, then down town; to Pic, Constellation and Nic-nax Offices. A lovely spring day. Writing & drawing till 12 A letter from Mary Anne [Greatbatch] this morning. She is 'taking quinine for the ague'; the boys [Fred and Edward Greatbatch] have left their work on the railroad, little doing, times gloomy, 'about $82' owing her, she owing a doctor's bill and for some board; the boys will have about $153' coming to them. About $400 were left unpaid on the farm &c. A sad look out for them. 24. Thursday. Drawing on wood. By 5 1/2 down town, looked in at Nic-nax Office, then to Brooklyn. Encountered old Thorpe on the ferry boat ? once F. Leslie's editor, now of the Custom-house and Spirit of the Times, into the last of which he has recently purchased, at Richards' death. Walked awhile with him in Brooklyn; anon to Oxford St. Grace [Eldredge]'s eighteenth birthday. [Jesse] Haney there, and in the course of the evening, Mort Thomson, Ed Wells and [Frank] Cahill. Title: Thomas Butler Gunn Diaries: Volume 10, page 122, February 22-24, 1859 . 22 February 1859. Gunn, Thomas Butler, 1826-1903
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