Newspaper clipping of article written by Gunn for The Sunday Courier, describing the Edwards family's 1859 Christmas party. Transcription: Of what ?s to you with pleasure fraught, When it recurs, pray give a thought To him who made it. / [newspaper clipping] THE LOOKER-ON. ? BY THOMAS BUTLER GUNN. WHAT WE DID ON CHRISTMAS EVENING. We always have a good time of it, but this year I think, our doings culminated. If there were anywhere in this city of New York, half a hundred persons who improved the shining, or rather the dusky hours, to greater advantage, to the production of more in
Newspaper clipping of article written by Gunn for The Sunday Courier, describing the Edwards family's 1859 Christmas party. Transcription: Of what ?s to you with pleasure fraught, When it recurs, pray give a thought To him who made it. / [newspaper clipping] THE LOOKER-ON. ? BY THOMAS BUTLER GUNN. WHAT WE DID ON CHRISTMAS EVENING. We always have a good time of it, but this year I think, our doings culminated. If there were anywhere in this city of New York, half a hundred persons who improved the shining, or rather the dusky hours, to greater advantage, to the production of more innocent mirth and jollity, to the development of all those good feelings which are indissolubly connected with this good time, I should like to know ?em. At present I don ?t believe in their existence. That my satisfaction may be complete, I will indulge in the pleasure of chronicling our proceedings. I do it not alone for that reason, but because I suppose there are hundreds of persons who will be well pleased to learn how much of entertainment may be derived from a little care and combination, thousands who may sympathize with the occasion. If I stimulate folks into emulating us, all the better. We are not likely to run into excess of fun and merry-making in this working-day world. So, here ?s to begin. One word though, preliminary. It ?s none of my ordinary custom to sprinkle printers ? ink on the sanctity of my private life, that being a business which I do emphatically condemn and detest. I believe said ink as composed, among other ingredients of oil and lamp-black. If it be so, by the common misuse of it in the manner alluded to, I should suppose the latter ingredient to greatly preponderate. I have even said instances in which vitriol might be supposed to enter largely into its composition. So there ?ll be no violating of kindly amenities; that is understood. And now to my pleasant task. We had determined on a play ?a pantomime. There had been weeks of preparation, of cu
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