Tells a story about Elizabeth Gouverneur lying about her daughter May's age to save money on a city car. Transcription: her [Allie Vernon ?s] dupe [Solomon Eytinge]. [Frank] Cahill went round to [George] Arnold ?s for an hour and then came back to bed. 25. Thursday. The first shower-bath of the season! Down town early, back by 9. Met [John A.] Wood and Arnold. Drawing, writing and a little Phonography all day till 9 Then to the Edwards ?. Quite a room full of folks. [James] Parton there, in honor of his half-brother presence with a newly-wed-wife. Miss Bonestell, the Edwards girls [Eliza
Tells a story about Elizabeth Gouverneur lying about her daughter May's age to save money on a city car. Transcription: her [Allie Vernon ?s] dupe [Solomon Eytinge]. [Frank] Cahill went round to [George] Arnold ?s for an hour and then came back to bed. 25. Thursday. The first shower-bath of the season! Down town early, back by 9. Met [John A.] Wood and Arnold. Drawing, writing and a little Phonography all day till 9 Then to the Edwards ?. Quite a room full of folks. [James] Parton there, in honor of his half-brother presence with a newly-wed-wife. Miss Bonestell, the Edwards girls [Eliza, Matty, and Sally Edwards], Cahill and [Jesse] Haney made up the rest. Talk music and singing ? Eliza ?s good contralto voice prominent in the latter. Some attempts at dancing, Cahill taking a turn or two with the girls. 26. Friday. Down town. To Haney ?s, Post Office and Ferris ? ? didn ?t see [Frank] Pounden at the latter place. Pic Office. Return and drawing steadily til 9 or later. A whole batch of notions for the Harpers ? if they like to have ?em. Story illustrative of Mrs [Elizabeth] Gouverneur ?s habits of lying and theft. She was riding in a city car with the child, May [Gouverneur], and inquired May ?s age. ?ǣUnder five! ? ?ǣWhy, ma, ? says May, when they got out, ?ǣI ?m nearly six. ? ?ǣWhy did you tell that falsehood asks Mrs [Catharine] Potter. ?ǣI never saw such a fool as you are! ? was the reply. Mrs Gouverneur saved just two cents by the lie. Further on, she took a plum or apple or the like, at a shop at which they called. May at the next fruit-stall plunged her little fists into a basket-full of peanuts, and went dancing off! 27. Saturdy. A letter from George Bolton. He writes expressing a regard for me which touches me; as usual a little morbidly about the future, yet with a flowingly- Title: Thomas Butler Gunn Diaries: Volume 9, page 110, March 24-27, 1858 . 24 March 1858. Gunn, Thomas Butler, 1826-1903
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