Mentions a confrontation with Boyd and a talk with Alfred Waud about his brother Will and Young England. Transcription: there to abide for some six weeks or so. Found them [Henry Hart and Dillon Mapother] in at Patons, with Mr [Joseph] Richardson and the Catholic priest. Talk for a season. Then a young fellow coming up demanded speech with me. It was Boyd the Engraver and ?ǣArtist (!) ? and the matter was, ? He had been requested to make a sketch for the Ned Buntlinean title; which he had done. And lately had heard that I had, also; whereupon he fancied that his drawing was to be used sans p
Mentions a confrontation with Boyd and a talk with Alfred Waud about his brother Will and Young England. Transcription: there to abide for some six weeks or so. Found them [Henry Hart and Dillon Mapother] in at Patons, with Mr [Joseph] Richardson and the Catholic priest. Talk for a season. Then a young fellow coming up demanded speech with me. It was Boyd the Engraver and ?ǣArtist (!) ? and the matter was, ? He had been requested to make a sketch for the Ned Buntlinean title; which he had done. And lately had heard that I had, also; whereupon he fancied that his drawing was to be used sans payment! Explained matters to him pretty stiffly, not over-pleased that any one should chose to arrogate to himself the notion that I ?d do, or needed to do so dirty an action. He professed himself satisfied. Returned ?ǣhome ? tired out and weary hearted. Charley [Brown] leaveth on Saturday next. His brothers the eldest about to wed, and the house to be jointly occupied by the three. Dull enough. He ?s a fine fellow, though egotistic. Why don ?t I hear from [William] Barth, and from M [Mary Bilton]? 6. Sunday. Joe [Greatbatch] and Mr Hart calling, went together to the Church I attended with Charley last Sunday. Afterwards a walk about Washington Square, and then returning, parted with Joe on Canal, and Mr Hart on Hudson. After dinner writing. [Alfred] Waud called at about 4. Inklings of his life and adventures; also of his brother ?s career at Danthorne ?s, forming a characteristic picture of Young England and the rising generation. How ?ǣthe governer ? could manage none of them, and that not a cool word had passed between father and son for a year or more. How Danthorn ?s pupils behaved, having detain- Title: Thomas Butler Gunn Diaries: Volume 1, page 177, October 5-6, 1850 . 5 October 1850. Gunn, Thomas Butler, 1826-1903
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