Describes an incident at his boarding house. Transcription: they got him [Alexander Hay Ritchie] away down stairs where he armed himself with a knife and swore dire revenge on the lady [Fanny Wallack], nearly sticking Mrs [Anna M.] Leave by mistake. Other boarders newly arrived that day, hearing the scrimmage fancied they ?d got in an evil house, and were for quitting instanter ? telling Mrs Leave, ?ǣshe had made a good thing out of them. ? (Of course she had done a little borrowing or the like.) Today, Sunday, Ritchie and [Charley] Moorhouse were quite affectionate, spite of the formers dis
Describes an incident at his boarding house. Transcription: they got him [Alexander Hay Ritchie] away down stairs where he armed himself with a knife and swore dire revenge on the lady [Fanny Wallack], nearly sticking Mrs [Anna M.] Leave by mistake. Other boarders newly arrived that day, hearing the scrimmage fancied they ?d got in an evil house, and were for quitting instanter ? telling Mrs Leave, ?ǣshe had made a good thing out of them. ? (Of course she had done a little borrowing or the like.) Today, Sunday, Ritchie and [Charley] Moorhouse were quite affectionate, spite of the formers discoulered optics. Moorhouse had apologized, owning he was drunk. I suppose they all were, his lady wife and all. / Writing a little, and drawing ? for [Thomas W.] Strong. In doors all day ? deep snow outside. Alf [Waud] reading the ?ǣGreen Hand ? aloud part of the day. Title: Thomas Butler Gunn Diaries: Volume 4, page 49, February 29, 1852 . 29 February 1852. Gunn, Thomas Butler, 1826-1903
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