Mentions receiving letters from home, and hopes he will not have to ask his father for money. Transcription: 6. Wednesday. Office all day. Evening finished Daguerrotype. [Warren] Butler called, and remained the evening. The Frenchman Baudoin hath dunned Charley [Brown] in must ungentlemanly mode. Lent him $5. 7. Thursday. Office. [Charles F.] Anderson off for Baltimore. Met Laurie on Broadway. Letters from [William] Barth, he expecting to be in New York anon. Jabez Wing called, at dinner time, he having come on a day ?s excursion from Fall River. Evening scribbling. Baudoin taketh not his mea
Mentions receiving letters from home, and hopes he will not have to ask his father for money. Transcription: 6. Wednesday. Office all day. Evening finished Daguerrotype. [Warren] Butler called, and remained the evening. The Frenchman Baudoin hath dunned Charley [Brown] in must ungentlemanly mode. Lent him $5. 7. Thursday. Office. [Charles F.] Anderson off for Baltimore. Met Laurie on Broadway. Letters from [William] Barth, he expecting to be in New York anon. Jabez Wing called, at dinner time, he having come on a day ?s excursion from Fall River. Evening scribbling. Baudoin taketh not his meals here, to the mystification of Mrs [Elizabeth] Dob. 8. Friday. Office. Call on [Wardle] Corbyn, drawing all night. Mr [Joseph W.] Morse called, work to do. Letters from home. From my mother [Naomi Butler Gunn], from Rosa [Gunn], Naomi [Gunn] and Sam [Gunn]. My father [Samuel Gunn] I think thinks that hunger would not be so real a thing when it occurred three thousand miles away from him. A bitter thing to think, but it is the truth, though a son writes it. Well is it I have employ. My dear Sister Naomi has had seven pleasant weeks in the country ? well, she will be loved go where she will. And Rosa writes most kindly ? may God bless both of them, and keep me from needing my fathers coin. I must feel this, and think of it, and for long, too. Mr Johns called in the evening. He has been in West Chester &c. Wet, wet day. 9. Saturday. Office. Call on Mr Morse, ? work anon. Evening, a letter from [Dillon] Mapother. Went to [Warren] Butler and [Charles] Brown ?s at leaving Office and therefrom walked to [177] Canal with Charley and [Alfred] Waud, who hath all day during the week tenanted our room, save at night. Punch and talk during the evening. Writing Mr [Frank] Royal ?s article. 10. Sunday. Finished Mr Royals article. (Had a letter arrive from [William] Boutcher on Friday last) A bit of a walk with Waud previous to dinner. Drawing during the sunny cold afternoon, and at night
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