Comments on James Morris. Transcription: going up town with him [Frank Cahill]. His three days labor on the Courier produced him only $4. [] Banks, as [Frank] Bellew expresses it, has formed a ?ǣcriminal connexion ? with the Saturday Press; apropos of which I learn that [Henry] Clapp ?s little Boston indiscretion was a forgery. [James] Morris I find a gentlemanly amiable fellow of narrow calibre, thoroughly out of place in his present position. He is exceptional and sensitive as to small things and people, no-wise philosophic, analytical or at ease in this working day world. Like others o
Comments on James Morris. Transcription: going up town with him [Frank Cahill]. His three days labor on the Courier produced him only $4. [] Banks, as [Frank] Bellew expresses it, has formed a ?ǣcriminal connexion ? with the Saturday Press; apropos of which I learn that [Henry] Clapp ?s little Boston indiscretion was a forgery. [James] Morris I find a gentlemanly amiable fellow of narrow calibre, thoroughly out of place in his present position. He is exceptional and sensitive as to small things and people, no-wise philosophic, analytical or at ease in this working day world. Like others of the class whom I have known he inclines to small punning. His work is done very conscientiously, but weakly. Capable perhaps of occasional excellent essayish articles he is nowise up to the moment in the rough and tumble of New York journalism. [Bob] Gun meditates bowing him out civilly. Morris inclines to melancholy and isn ?t a healthy man. Nor does he seem to have hold of himself, to know his capacities. Mrs [Mary] Levison lives in Houston St. Little Miss [Sarah] Maguire gave me a stray item anent Mrs L ?s ?ǣflirting ? and being a ?ǣvery gay widow ? with certain members of [] Chapin ?s church, previous to her journey to Europe. The little sempstress [seamstress] picked this up at a house where she was sewing at. Our male boarders do a good deal of visiting over the way, to the development of much jealousy among Title: Thomas Butler Gunn Diaries: Volume 11, page 89, August 19, 1859 . 19 August 1859. Gunn, Thomas Butler, 1826-1903
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