Regarding a talk with Catharine Potter about the situation surrounding Mrs. Brooks and her daughter, Nina, applying for a spot in the boarding house at 132 Bleecker St. Transcription: little wife [Anna Thomson] had cried for an hour about it on his [Mortimer Thomson ?s] shoulder. Thomson says he has but a confused recollection of [Jesse] Haney ?s informing him how matters stood and he, certainly, wouldn ?t have permitted the intimacy if he hadn ?t thought Mrs Allie ?ǣEytinge ? wasn ?t what she assumed to be. She suggested it, in Sol [Eytinge] ?s absence. He ?ǣalways detested that style of wom
Regarding a talk with Catharine Potter about the situation surrounding Mrs. Brooks and her daughter, Nina, applying for a spot in the boarding house at 132 Bleecker St. Transcription: little wife [Anna Thomson] had cried for an hour about it on his [Mortimer Thomson ?s] shoulder. Thomson says he has but a confused recollection of [Jesse] Haney ?s informing him how matters stood and he, certainly, wouldn ?t have permitted the intimacy if he hadn ?t thought Mrs Allie ?ǣEytinge ? wasn ?t what she assumed to be. She suggested it, in Sol [Eytinge] ?s absence. He ?ǣalways detested that style of woman, ? but his wife was friendly to her, living so near together. Of course he ?s going to stop further intercourse. Good for Doesticks! I ?m glad to think he ?s all right, for his own, as for innocent little ?ǣChips ? sake. 12. Friday. Round to [Frank] Bellew ?s with two drawings on wood, gratis, for the Pic. Writing all the rest of the day. Article for Frank Leslie ?s. Bed by 1. Pounden (Frank) called at supper. 13. Saturday. To Harpers with notions. 8 to do. To Frank Leslie ?s, Pic Office, Post Office. Met Moore, of the Times, and [John] Ware the Bostonian, also [Robert] Gun, Bellew ?s man. Phonography at night. Saw [Henry] Clapp in Broadway with a woman ? probably Lola [Montez]. 14 Sunday. Talking with Mrs P. [Catharine Potter] about the Brooks ?application for board, it appears that at her solicitation Mrs Church has written a note to Pierce (Mrs [Maria] Brooks ? son and Nina [Brooks] ?s half brother) telling him, delicately, Mrs P ?s fix ? and that one of her boarders would quit in the event of the two ladies reappearing at the house. Pierce assumed ignorance of the affair, altogether, but betrayed himself by an allusion to [William] Leslie, adding that ?ǣyoung people should be left to manage their own affairs. ? He ?s been up to snuff throughout. A portly, red faced, white-haired, very good-natured sort of man folks didn ?t suspect him of complicity. Yet when Mrs P.
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