Mentions calls of Blakeman and Park Benjamin, editor of the Constellation. Transcription: for life makes us selfish. Writing till sunset, finishing comic story with drawing to it. Mort Thomson and [George] Arnold came up, the latter to borrow a book, the former to se [Jesse] Haney. Evening chores, and by 9, round to Houston St. Indifferent piano-playing heard in Arnold ?s room ? evidently some woman or women there. [Bob] Gun came out, went up in his room, [Frank] Cahill went down, Arnold appeared & [Jack] Sears. A good deal of going in & out ? Sears understood to be convoying feminine 'part
Mentions calls of Blakeman and Park Benjamin, editor of the Constellation. Transcription: for life makes us selfish. Writing till sunset, finishing comic story with drawing to it. Mort Thomson and [George] Arnold came up, the latter to borrow a book, the former to se [Jesse] Haney. Evening chores, and by 9, round to Houston St. Indifferent piano-playing heard in Arnold ?s room ? evidently some woman or women there. [Bob] Gun came out, went up in his room, [Frank] Cahill went down, Arnold appeared & [Jack] Sears. A good deal of going in & out ? Sears understood to be convoying feminine 'party' off. Nothing but innuendo and brothel talk for a good hour, when I left. 16. Thursday. Called on [William] Blakeman, then to 17th Street, to see Park Benjamin, not in, went again at 11. [James] Parton had given me an introductory letter ? an exceedingly friendly one ? to the editor of the forth-coming 'Constellation.' A plump grey-haired, lame man, a long, peculiarly-made crutch lying on the carpet beside him. Talked a good deal, seemed genial, but spready ? perhaps fussy and opinionative. He gave me a very hearty reception. Left stories ? he suggested subject for editorial ? said he'd pay for it, if publisher didn't ? that it should go in if he had to copy it out in his own handwriting. To [Frank] Bellew's, to borrow Sanger's book for review ? stayed an hour or so ? down town as far as Bleecker in car with him. After dinner to Spruce St, to see [George] Roberts, proprietor of 'Constellation.' He gone. Looked into Broadway Pic office near Canal. A little shop, boy in it, big grotesque pictures of Bellew's hanging on walls. Evening, scribbled the last three and a half pages, when [Henry] Hitchings and Oliver Hillard came up. Smoke, a mild tod, and talk. Hillard knows Park Benjamin. Apropos of the latter, Title: Thomas Butler Gunn Diaries: Volume 10, page 46, December 15-16, 1858 . 15 December 1858. Gunn, Thomas Butler, 1826-1903
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