Mentions attending an Amusement and Intellectual-Marriage-Accelerating Society meeting organized by Alfred Brown, including both men and women. Transcription: called at Dob ?s [177 Canal St.] by the way, I tarrying his [Charles Brown ?s] leisure in the little boot-makers shop. Dob [Elizabeth Dobson] hath been writing to & boring [Alfred] Waud to talk to Brown. / In to the cars, and up one of the avenues, then alighting, an hour spent in finding the house, Charley having mistaken the avenue. This effected, at length. Into a spacious handsomely furnished room of a stylish up-town boarding house
Mentions attending an Amusement and Intellectual-Marriage-Accelerating Society meeting organized by Alfred Brown, including both men and women. Transcription: called at Dob ?s [177 Canal St.] by the way, I tarrying his [Charles Brown ?s] leisure in the little boot-makers shop. Dob [Elizabeth Dobson] hath been writing to & boring [Alfred] Waud to talk to Brown. / In to the cars, and up one of the avenues, then alighting, an hour spent in finding the house, Charley having mistaken the avenue. This effected, at length. Into a spacious handsomely furnished room of a stylish up-town boarding house; some ten or twelve persons of either sex therein. Alfred Brown there. Introductions &c. (The Society meet once a week thus, at the houses of members.) Closed doors while they read their minutes &c, then all issuing forth into the huge sitting room, the ?ǣbusiness ? or pleasure commenced. Firstly one member read something from ?ǣRichelieu ? rather dismally, then a lady-member, [words crossed out] favoured us with a scathing denunciation of tobacco, which she had concocted. She was not to blame, ? but Brown ?s brother who gave her such a dismal subject to descant upon, ? what the deuce could she do, but the moral & statistical. Then Charley gave a recitation right well ? Campbell ?s ?ǣTwo Spirits. ? I followed with tolerable success. Anon some singing &c, then dancing, then forfeits. All this latter part was pleasant enow. There was one handsome, fair-faced woman, with exquisite bust and figure, innocent-looking Title: Thomas Butler Gunn Diaries: Volume 5, page 155, February 10, 1853 . 10 February 1853. Gunn, Thomas Butler, 1826-1903
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