Describes visits to the Partons and the Thomsons in Brooklyn. Transcription: yesterday with the addition of headache. Met [Frank] Bellew and [Charles] Gaylor this morning, and Mr Martin in Washington Square, as I returned from a call at [Edward] Dixon's, to leave papers. 7. Friday. Down town. Rain. Work. 8. Saturday. Writing. A sunny, pleasant day. To Brooklyn in the afternoon, [Jesse] Haney having preceded me. A pleasant evening. All the folks save myself and 'Fanny [Fern]' went to visit [Mortimer] Thomson at his new house in Hampden Street, but finding everybody out, returned. Stopped all n
Describes visits to the Partons and the Thomsons in Brooklyn. Transcription: yesterday with the addition of headache. Met [Frank] Bellew and [Charles] Gaylor this morning, and Mr Martin in Washington Square, as I returned from a call at [Edward] Dixon's, to leave papers. 7. Friday. Down town. Rain. Work. 8. Saturday. Writing. A sunny, pleasant day. To Brooklyn in the afternoon, [Jesse] Haney having preceded me. A pleasant evening. All the folks save myself and 'Fanny [Fern]' went to visit [Mortimer] Thomson at his new house in Hampden Street, but finding everybody out, returned. Stopped all night. 9. Sunday. With Haney to Thomson's. A brother of Mort's from Minnesota there, [Edward] Well's gone to church and 'Chips' [Anna Thomson] is the country for a day or two. Over the house, a very pleasant one, then with Thomson for a stroll Gowanus-way, returning by 1, leaving Mort at his door. Dinner at [James] Partons. All took a windy walk ? Grace [Eldredge], Mrs P, Parton, Haney and I ? in the afternoon. The Thomson's came at night, Mrs T. Wells, Doesticks & his brother Clifford. Returned to New York through the mist with Haney by 12. These Brooklyn visits are my true holidays. To know how I value them I have but to think how I should miss them were I deprived of the pleasure. Parton said a good thing ? among hundreds of others ? yesterday. 'To love is human ? but to hate is Irish!!!' 10. Monday. Writing ? in doors all the dull, rainy, lowering day. Being in [William] Leslie's room at 11 or later, with him and Rawson [Gill], and hearing considerable row on the stairs, we opened the door and in sepentined Bob Gun with a dog which he had picked up at 'The Store' an adjacent tavern. He was ab- Title: Thomas Butler Gunn Diaries: Volume 9, page 142, May 6-10, 1858 . 6 May 1858. Gunn, Thomas Butler, 1826-1903
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