Comments on the fake advertisement for Mrs. Paterson's boarding house. Transcription: tisement. That he, on Tuesday even, had percieved the notice, and somewhat startled at the anticipated advent of $ boarders, had sent it below to inquire further. ?ǣTish ? [Leticia Paterson] had kept it from her mama till the morrow, and then at the breakfast table great was the shindy. A descant being made by the feminines, on Fagan in the course of the day, [John B.] Holmes relates that he split as to the authorship. Natheless great is the ire manifested towards him, both White & Keating(!) threatening
Comments on the fake advertisement for Mrs. Paterson's boarding house. Transcription: tisement. That he, on Tuesday even, had percieved the notice, and somewhat startled at the anticipated advent of $ boarders, had sent it below to inquire further. ?ǣTish ? [Leticia Paterson] had kept it from her mama till the morrow, and then at the breakfast table great was the shindy. A descant being made by the feminines, on Fagan in the course of the day, [John B.] Holmes relates that he split as to the authorship. Natheless great is the ire manifested towards him, both White & Keating(!) threatening to lycke him. (No talk of licking me. And finally, a letter is to be inserted in the Brooklyn advertiser, (in which also our advertisement appeared, I setting forth how evil-conducted boarders have conspired against Mrs ?ǣPattyson ?! [words crossed out]. / Met Mr [Henry] Hart at Saint Polge ?s (vide Sairey Gamp,) sketched a little, parted at Duane, and each to our seperate domiciles. Wrote till midnight. 8 Friday. At [168] Duane Street awhile, then out making a sketch of another Broadway block. Back, and out again with Dillon [Mapother]; left him sketching and went to [Charles F.] Anderson ?s. Saw the old man who intimated his intention of chiseling me out of $5 of the owing 15, which he promised to ?ǣsend up. ? Back to Dillon and Duane. Returned there after dinner, making drawing from sketch. Evening sallying out, called at [55] Franklin Street. The door opened by a fat old woman who in reply to my inquiry as to whether Mrs [Rebecca] Kidder was at home replied earthy ?ǣNo! ? Whereupon I rejoined ?ǣOh! ? as a parody and incontinently sloped. Writing awhile and reading. [Alphonse de] Lamartine & [Thomas] Carlyle on the Revolution of France. 9. Saturday. At Duane Street, drawing. Afternoon having five blocks now fairly drawn out, with Mr Hart & Dillon to Millers the lithographers. He not within, talk with his partner, then left. Called at Holmes ?, then to the Battery and R
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