Mentions receiving an apple from the Edwards girls. Transcription: by her [Elizabeth Gouverneur's] groans, cries, lamentations and yells. Doctor comes nearly every day. She's only 'nervous' the women say, but fancies she may go crazy. I should suppose it not at all impossible. Her dread of death amounts to insanity. What a lot, and what a woman! Now I fancy Rawson [Gill]'s return will rather dissatisfy than please her ? she has no jot of love for the fellow. He's living with the Martins. Writing the last five pages in the evening, chores &c, then to drawing. I've just finished my drawing. It
Mentions receiving an apple from the Edwards girls. Transcription: by her [Elizabeth Gouverneur's] groans, cries, lamentations and yells. Doctor comes nearly every day. She's only 'nervous' the women say, but fancies she may go crazy. I should suppose it not at all impossible. Her dread of death amounts to insanity. What a lot, and what a woman! Now I fancy Rawson [Gill]'s return will rather dissatisfy than please her ? she has no jot of love for the fellow. He's living with the Martins. Writing the last five pages in the evening, chores &c, then to drawing. I've just finished my drawing. It's midnight and past. Half an hour ago as I sat at work, (a big fire tranquilly burning away down town, which I could see as I sat) [Jesse] Haney came up, from the Edwards', bringing me an apple from the girls [Sally, Matty, and Eliza Edwards]. God bless them! It ?s something to be remembered kindly by them. Eight years ago as I sat at work one night in [177] Canal St, I remember [Charles] Damoreau ? then Charley Brown ? bringing me an apple from Lotty [Kidder]. I put it down in my Diary, where ?tis yet. Poor Lotty! where are you now? I hope God will let us meet in Heaven, some day. 18. Tuesday. To Office, Williams the engravers &c. At noon went over the way to the Saturday Press office. There I found not [Henry] Clapp, but [Fitz James] O'Brien standing with back to the stove, in a small, rather dingy and decidedly unventilated room, two Title: Thomas Butler Gunn Diaries: Volume 10, page 82, January 17-18, 1859 . 17 January 1859. Gunn, Thomas Butler, 1826-1903
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