Describes drinking with others at Crook and Duff's. Transcription: A Conference at Crook & Duff ?s [af]ter [Frank] Bellew. [Frank] Cahill there. Found Bellew with [Jesse] Haney, at the ?ǣNic-nax ? office (the latter going to Philadelphia to-morrow night.) At the ?ǣCourier ? Office, got $5 from Smith. Found Bellew talking to Frank Leslie at Crook and Duffs, [Charles] Wilbour joined us. Cahill around. Plenty of familiar faces there. [Charles] Briggs promised to join us in half-an-hour, during which time Bellew and I lunched. [Fitz James] O ?Brien and a knot of others at the bar, his black eye v
Describes drinking with others at Crook and Duff's. Transcription: A Conference at Crook & Duff ?s [af]ter [Frank] Bellew. [Frank] Cahill there. Found Bellew with [Jesse] Haney, at the ?ǣNic-nax ? office (the latter going to Philadelphia to-morrow night.) At the ?ǣCourier ? Office, got $5 from Smith. Found Bellew talking to Frank Leslie at Crook and Duffs, [Charles] Wilbour joined us. Cahill around. Plenty of familiar faces there. [Charles] Briggs promised to join us in half-an-hour, during which time Bellew and I lunched. [Fitz James] O ?Brien and a knot of others at the bar, his black eye very unsightly, his countenance generally about-towny and vicious; every way deteriorated. He wore his Mambrino-helmet hat and land check, peg-top trousers. [John] in, talked a bit to us, then joined the others. Joe Harper and Bellew. Briggs came. Down-stairs to one of the private rooms, or rather cells, there sat for three mortal hours, smoking, I over sherry, the rest over brandy, and talking about the projected comic paper. Briggs proposes a bi-weekly, at three cents per number, I think a good idea, involving the necessity of serving up matter hot and hot. He didn ?t interpose any non-committalism in politics, as I apprehended. Briggs ? manner, certainly the reverse of prepossessing, -set me against him, some time ago ? I suppose Title: Thomas Butler Gunn Diaries: Volume 12, page 89, March 6, 1860 . 6 March 1860. Gunn, Thomas Butler, 1826-1903
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