Describes the office he shares with Frank Bellew, and a letter from William Boutcher. Transcription: lady's purse, projecting a partnership with a lithographer, taking a villa in the country &c. A friend of [William] Boutchers dined with Mrs Stowe's daughters and describes them as 'most gentlemanly young ladies. Amy Allom is married ? not to the Australian Braithwaite. 'The old cock [Thomas Allom]' quoth Boutcher 'will probably be the next to sling himself up' ? or to 'take a house-keeper,' George Clarke ?s rusticating ? will probably bring a wife to town with him. Corny Bagster has 'had a
Describes the office he shares with Frank Bellew, and a letter from William Boutcher. Transcription: lady's purse, projecting a partnership with a lithographer, taking a villa in the country &c. A friend of [William] Boutchers dined with Mrs Stowe's daughters and describes them as 'most gentlemanly young ladies. Amy Allom is married ? not to the Australian Braithwaite. 'The old cock [Thomas Allom]' quoth Boutcher 'will probably be the next to sling himself up' ? or to 'take a house-keeper,' George Clarke ?s rusticating ? will probably bring a wife to town with him. Corny Bagster has 'had all his family pigging at his rooms,' projected crossing the Atlantic with 'em and ? didn't. Boutcher has done some drawing for the Illustrated News, illustrated Loftus's Babylonian book &c. Now to myself. I share [Frank] Bellew's newly take office. 'Tis a perfect Salisbury plain of a room, almost unfurnished. There are two tables, one a sunall, the latter a lengthy and narrow one, appertaining to the official purposes of former occupants. Bellew does Picayune or Nicnax work, having contracted for both, or labors on a big water color dozen of cricketers, which he will have to put on stone. I work at the drawings for my book, or what else I can get to do. What an absurdly unjust and false estimation had I of Bellew. He is ? if I be not now mistaken ? one of the most kindly natured and un-affected of gentlemen. I am learning to like Title: Thomas Butler Gunn Diaries: Volume 8, page 98, October 28-31, 1856 . 31 October 1856. Gunn, Thomas Butler, 1826-1903
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