Describes visiting Mort Thomson and his family and attending church with the Partons. Transcription: votes his [Charles Gunn ?s] spare time to visiting Banbury or some picture gallery. / Hannah [Bennett] writes as she always does, lovingly, earnestly faithfully. George Clarke thanks me for the book he did not get, says that [William] Boutcher is in Manchester, and speaks of a three weeks ramble in Flanders, in company with young Cattermole, including ?ǣjolly old Bruges, ? Ghent, Malines, Antwerp, Louvain and Brussels. Also, in July, George made a raid into Derbyshire. Business he says is dull
Describes visiting Mort Thomson and his family and attending church with the Partons. Transcription: votes his [Charles Gunn ?s] spare time to visiting Banbury or some picture gallery. / Hannah [Bennett] writes as she always does, lovingly, earnestly faithfully. George Clarke thanks me for the book he did not get, says that [William] Boutcher is in Manchester, and speaks of a three weeks ramble in Flanders, in company with young Cattermole, including ?ǣjolly old Bruges, ? Ghent, Malines, Antwerp, Louvain and Brussels. Also, in July, George made a raid into Derbyshire. Business he says is dull, and the architectural profession, as practiced, ?ǣan imposition and a swindle. ? 15. Sunday. Over to [James] Parton ?s with [Jesse] Haney. In the afternoon to [Mortimer] Thomsons, Grace Eldridge and Miss Louisa Jacobs walking with us, but deserting at the door. ?ǣDoesticks ? household a pleasant one. His mother [Sophy Thomson], wife [Anna Thomson] and a friend who resides with them. ?ǣDoesticks ? wife has a very pretty, innocent face, a kind eyes, and soft dark hair. She is quite young, says not much, and evidently thinks him the cleverest fellow in the world. His mother ?ǣthe gay and galliant Sophy ? as he delights to call her, resembles her son and often talks Doestickian. (When Thomson and Haney, upon her refusing them the chess board ? it being Sunday night ? commenced a verbal and mental game, she after five minutes lapse, said ?ǣI vote you have the chess board ? your ?e only sinning under difficulties! ?) At night Haney and I departed for [Henry Ward] Beecher ?s church, having made an appointment with the Partons. Church crowded, all there, ice cold night, Parton quietly rampant with wrath at being in church, and a sermon that might deserve chronicling, though an inferior one for Henry Ward Beecher. [16. Monday through 17. Tuesday] Drawing for Harpers. Sketches for a Boarding house article, to be written by [Alfred] Guernsey. Title: Thomas Butler Gunn Diaries:
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