Mentions seeing Dillon Mapother sail off to Ireland for his twenty-first birthday. Transcription: All the business however had been provoked by that asinine water-throwing. 22. Saturday. With [Alfred] Waud & [Alfred] Swinton to the Atlantic dock Street, where we saw Dillon [Mapother] off for England. He went out pleasantly enow, and the ship looked nobly. His cousin, a Mr Mapother there to see him off. It was a busy, bustling scene, ? last glimpse I had of Dillon saw him off, top of the cabin [of the Pacific], waving his handkerchief. / I like him, ? he ?s a frank, warm-hearted generous-spi
Mentions seeing Dillon Mapother sail off to Ireland for his twenty-first birthday. Transcription: All the business however had been provoked by that asinine water-throwing. 22. Saturday. With [Alfred] Waud & [Alfred] Swinton to the Atlantic dock Street, where we saw Dillon [Mapother] off for England. He went out pleasantly enow, and the ship looked nobly. His cousin, a Mr Mapother there to see him off. It was a busy, bustling scene, ? last glimpse I had of Dillon saw him off, top of the cabin [of the Pacific], waving his handkerchief. / I like him, ? he ?s a frank, warm-hearted generous-spirited fellow, and gentleman every inch of him. He goes back to his home [Ireland] there to pass his twenty-first birthday, anon to return hither to a hopeful and prosperous future. God speed him! / The rest of the day down town about Fulton Street, and over to Brooklyn. I wot not what in the evening, partly I think passed in doors, or down stairs with Waud and Charley Brown; which latter hath made an application to the legislature to transmute his name to that of Damoreau, Gallicising it for the anticipated bride [Beatrice Prideaux] ?s sake. Waud incontinently corrupts it into ?ǣD__d rogue! ? 23. Sunday. A dreary, slimy, rainy, in-doors day. Marvellously matagrabolized and owlish. [24. Monday through 29. Saturday] All this work-o-day week has slipped by unrecorded during its Title: Thomas Butler Gunn Diaries: Volume 5, page 144, January 21-29, 1853 . 21 January 1853. Gunn, Thomas Butler, 1826-1903
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