Mentions that Mary Levison has sold the New York Picayune to Mort Thomson and Mr. Wilbur. Transcription: by the way ? he [William Leslie] going to Philadelphia. To bank for Radway's $20, then to the R. R. R. Office. Told him I wanted the remaining $50. Promised that I should have it by Monday. To Picayune Office. Doesticks [Mortimer Thomson] there. With him and [Jesse] Haney to Muller ?s studio about medallion portrait of Thomson. Rhine wine and Muller's works. The three of us to dinner at [132] Bleecker St. [Frank] Bellew came in the evening. All having pipes in Haney's room. Writing subseq
Mentions that Mary Levison has sold the New York Picayune to Mort Thomson and Mr. Wilbur. Transcription: by the way ? he [William Leslie] going to Philadelphia. To bank for Radway's $20, then to the R. R. R. Office. Told him I wanted the remaining $50. Promised that I should have it by Monday. To Picayune Office. Doesticks [Mortimer Thomson] there. With him and [Jesse] Haney to Muller ?s studio about medallion portrait of Thomson. Rhine wine and Muller's works. The three of us to dinner at [132] Bleecker St. [Frank] Bellew came in the evening. All having pipes in Haney's room. Writing subsequently. 6. Saturday. Down town to Radway's, Picayune Office &c, and in the afternoon. Got another $20. 7. Sunday. Rainy all the morning and damp throughout the day. Thompson came. With him and Haney to Brooklyn, and with the latter to [James] Parton's. / [Charles] Gaylor breaking his appointment with Mrs [Mary] Levison on Saturday, she has, definitely, sold the paper to [Charles E.] Wilbur and Thompson, the latt former finding the money ? $3000, half to be paid down, the rest secured on mortgage. 8. Monday. To Bellews, and down town in the afternoon, with article for Radway. Wet weather. [9. Tuesday through 10. Wednesday] Miserably wet weather. Down town and writing. To Hannah [Bennett]; and Dillon Mapother. Got a letter from Alf Waud. [11 Thursday through 13. Saturday] Writing, on stories and made one drawing. Hither and thither, Title: Thomas Butler Gunn Diaries: Volume 8, page 187, June 5-13, 1857 . 5 June 1857. Gunn, Thomas Butler, 1826-1903
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