Describes a conversation with Thomas Paterson about Colonel Hugh Forbes. Transcription: June 1859. 1. Wednesday. Chores &c. Down town to the Century Office by 12 1/2 through rain-drizzle. Article accepted and already in type as I had not anticipated. Corrected proof: talk with [Thomas] Mc Elrath and his son [Thomson McElrath], my cabin-chum on Lake Superior. Out; met [Jesse] Haney: hither and thither, returning up-town per omnibus. [Thomas] Paterson called at 6, in accordance with a note I directed to him at the Post-Office. Talking of Col. [Hugh] Forbes, he narrated how extremely hard-up he
Describes a conversation with Thomas Paterson about Colonel Hugh Forbes. Transcription: June 1859. 1. Wednesday. Chores &c. Down town to the Century Office by 12 1/2 through rain-drizzle. Article accepted and already in type as I had not anticipated. Corrected proof: talk with [Thomas] Mc Elrath and his son [Thomson McElrath], my cabin-chum on Lake Superior. Out; met [Jesse] Haney: hither and thither, returning up-town per omnibus. [Thomas] Paterson called at 6, in accordance with a note I directed to him at the Post-Office. Talking of Col. [Hugh] Forbes, he narrated how extremely hard-up he had been during the past winter, almost entirely subsisting at his (Paterson's) expense; how, quarrelling with the man of whose invention he bragged so much to myself and [Jesse] Haney, the Colonel had, after his wont, commenced sharp hostilities, denouncing his opponent in a letter to the Tribune, revealing 'the invention,' and raking up his ex-coadjutors questionable antecedents. (The man had been in Sing Sing.) Moreover the Colonel visited all his acquaintance and, says Paterson, ruined the man. He cork-screwed himself into Paterson's household by requesting them to recommend him a washerwoman! Just now he's teaching fencing until he can fall in with some other man with money to get enthusiastic about, to adhere to, to quarrel with, to denounce as the greatest scoundrel living. His extraordinary pertinacity, thorough Title: Thomas Butler Gunn Diaries: Volume 11, page 6, June 1, 1859 . 1 June 1859. Gunn, Thomas Butler, 1826-1903
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