Describes his New Years' calls. Transcription: January 1860. 1. Sunday. In doors all day till the evening, then to [] Chapins, then to Edwards ?. [Thomas] Nast, [Jesse] Haney and the Pillows present, besides the family. ?ǣLooker-On ? article seems to have pleased everybody. [Charles] Honeywell and [Carl] Knudsen there. With the latter and Haney to 16th st. In Haney ?s room awhile with [Edward] Hayes and another. Looked into [William] Leslie ?s on going down-stairs and had a tod with him. 2. Monday. Turned out about 1, in company with [James] Morris and made New Year ?s calls. To a Mrs. Ba
Describes his New Years' calls. Transcription: January 1860. 1. Sunday. In doors all day till the evening, then to [] Chapins, then to Edwards ?. [Thomas] Nast, [Jesse] Haney and the Pillows present, besides the family. ?ǣLooker-On ? article seems to have pleased everybody. [Charles] Honeywell and [Carl] Knudsen there. With the latter and Haney to 16th st. In Haney ?s room awhile with [Edward] Hayes and another. Looked into [William] Leslie ?s on going down-stairs and had a tod with him. 2. Monday. Turned out about 1, in company with [James] Morris and made New Year ?s calls. To a Mrs. Bartow ?s in this street, where were Miss [Sarah] Maguire and Miss [Olive] Waite, with others. Thence back to the house. The women in gorgeous array generally, much ?ǣcarrying on ? and merriment. Out again, [Frank] Cahill with us, to other houses. Weather savagely wintry, an ice-cold wind blowing down the streets, parties of drunken, screaming youths, staggering hither and thither. To 12th street, I being desirous of visiting Chapin (he invites his congregation generally, and I ?ve intended going for the last two or three years) but he had just removed to 33rd street, nor could we learn the number of the house. Cahill left for down-town, Morris to go to Fanny Fern ?s, I returned to [132] Bleecker, making call at the house opposite. By 8 1/2 to Edwards ? [745 Broadway]. All the folks at blind man ?s bluff in the back-parlor or work- Title: Thomas Butler Gunn Diaries: Volume 12, page 6, January 1-2, 1860 . 1 January 1860. Gunn, Thomas Butler, 1826-1903
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