Mentions a visit to Rebecca Kidder. Transcription: Found [John B.] Holmes door closed, he being at Flushing. Stood waiting for a dismal half hour at the Wall Street hotel, during a heavy rain-storm, pondering of want of money and other horrors. Back, matagrabolized to [168] Duane, and then scribbling far into the night, copy of ?ǣIke Chivvles ? being needed on the morrow. 4 Saturday. Finished Chapter 3; [William] Barth called. With him to the Traveller Office, then to that of the defunct ?ǣLeader. ? Met the ?ǣGeneral Compte de Bargaro ? there, old Frenchman, mustached and vinuous faced, talke
Mentions a visit to Rebecca Kidder. Transcription: Found [John B.] Holmes door closed, he being at Flushing. Stood waiting for a dismal half hour at the Wall Street hotel, during a heavy rain-storm, pondering of want of money and other horrors. Back, matagrabolized to [168] Duane, and then scribbling far into the night, copy of ?ǣIke Chivvles ? being needed on the morrow. 4 Saturday. Finished Chapter 3; [William] Barth called. With him to the Traveller Office, then to that of the defunct ?ǣLeader. ? Met the ?ǣGeneral Compte de Bargaro ? there, old Frenchman, mustached and vinuous faced, talked with Barth of Mexico campaigning. Met Tom Frank. Imbibition. To Beekman Street, saw Lock, to Holmes ?, talk with him and Dunsier. To [Charles F.] Andersons. Got no money from either. Saw Barth to the South-Ferry. To Millers the lithographer about Mr [Henry] Hart ?s business, returning got wet through Dinner, then Traveller Office, then to Courtlandt Street tailors. Got breeks. To Holmes, he hard-up, so that inplace of getting the $5 owing me, I lent him $1. Back, dismal. Evening [Thomas] Fogarty in my room with me. 5. Sunday. Walk on the Battery with Fogarty, then to [] Chapins Church. Afternoon reading Alexandre Dumas ?ǣMarguerite of Valois. ? Detest the French school of fiction, in which adultery is a perfectly right and natural thing in the hero of a novel. Young Fogarty with me some time. Evening Barth & Joe [Greatbatch] called; the latter to Chapins with [William] Martin, I and Barth to Mrs [Rebecca] Kidders. There till 11, Pope, two others, [Arthur] Mason and Jane Gibson intermittent. Talk of materialism, of [Edwin] Forrest, of Womans Rights &c, &c. [word crossed out] Title: Thomas Butler Gunn Diaries: Volume 3, page 2, October 3-5, 1851 . 3 October 1851. Gunn, Thomas Butler, 1826-1903
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