Mentions that the first volume of The Lantern has been completed. Transcription: [Augustus] Fay to the Excelsior for supper. / Evening to Mrs [Rebecca] Kidders. Lotty [Kidder] having been very sick and keeping her room, had yesterday gone on a weeks visit to his grandmother. / Stayed till nigh 11. 26. Saturday. Down town to breakfast and Post Office &c. Return, Edward Greatbatch came with a letter from [William] Boutcher, at Paris. Reading &c till 12, when Dickenson and another woodpecker came with blocks. To the Reveille Office and [Cornelius] Mathews. Got paid $16, to Lockingtons, dinner, [
Mentions that the first volume of The Lantern has been completed. Transcription: [Augustus] Fay to the Excelsior for supper. / Evening to Mrs [Rebecca] Kidders. Lotty [Kidder] having been very sick and keeping her room, had yesterday gone on a weeks visit to his grandmother. / Stayed till nigh 11. 26. Saturday. Down town to breakfast and Post Office &c. Return, Edward Greatbatch came with a letter from [William] Boutcher, at Paris. Reading &c till 12, when Dickenson and another woodpecker came with blocks. To the Reveille Office and [Cornelius] Mathews. Got paid $16, to Lockingtons, dinner, [Thomas W.] Strongs, got $ for +?-?-?Oldpot.+?-?-? To Lantern Office. First Volume completed. Its run its course for 6 months. Next number a gratis one. Artist &c furnish things sans payment. Heartily willing for my part. Back with [Alfred] Swinton who called. In his room &c. A letter from Dillon Ma[pother]- Title: Thomas Butler Gunn Diaries: Volume 4, page 149, June 25-26, 1852 . 25 June 1852. Gunn, Thomas Butler, 1826-1903
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