Mentions Joe Greatbatch's plan to move to Australia in the next month. Transcription: rain-threatening day, down town. Post Office, Engravers, Lockington, Lantern & Reveille Offices. Met Fagan ? he ?d not been able to hunt up my quarters at Niagara, though present. Wells & Webb & Brooklyn. Return, tired out at 7 and lay down. Davis came & anon Joe [Greatbatch]. Joe off for Australia next month. 22. Sunday. To Governors Island, from the Battery. There all day in company with [William] Barth, divers other folk about though. At night abed in an upper room of the Hospital, Barth giving up his be
Mentions Joe Greatbatch's plan to move to Australia in the next month. Transcription: rain-threatening day, down town. Post Office, Engravers, Lockington, Lantern & Reveille Offices. Met Fagan ? he ?d not been able to hunt up my quarters at Niagara, though present. Wells & Webb & Brooklyn. Return, tired out at 7 and lay down. Davis came & anon Joe [Greatbatch]. Joe off for Australia next month. 22. Sunday. To Governors Island, from the Battery. There all day in company with [William] Barth, divers other folk about though. At night abed in an upper room of the Hospital, Barth giving up his bed to Beukman who was sick. Lay talking of old times & anticipatory Australian experience till past midnight. 23. Monday. New York. Reveille & Lantern Offices. At my room drawing. Reveille office again in the afternoon. Drawing in evening, dull enow. 24. Tuesday. Finished two cuts by noon, to dinner & to [William] Roberts, he out. Return & (after a call on [Cornelius] Mathews &c) work. Supping at Reade Street, met one of the Holtein Boarders, who inquired much after Mr [Henry] Hart. 25. Wednesday. Did drawing on wood, with intent to take it to [Thomas] Strongs; then to Roberts with two cuts, saw him, left them. To Lantern Office, no money from ever-promising never-performing [Thomas] Powell. Return, Barth came and stayed hours twain, during which I did big Reveille cut, a plashing rain-storm deluging Title: Thomas Butler Gunn Diaries: Volume 5, page 20, August 21-25, 1852 . 21 August 1852. Gunn, Thomas Butler, 1826-1903
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