Regarding Charles Damoreau's return to live in New York. Transcription: [en]ter Ghost' on my responding to his [Charles Damoreau's] knock at the door. I had heard of his arrival in the city, from John Wood, at Frank Leslie's, where I went to collect a $10 debt from Alf Waud. Charley has not bettered by keeping, was hardly of the vintage for it. He talks verbosely, redundantly, speaks of himself as 'a failure,' and by elaborate, ostentatious, yet amusingly expressed candor on the subject deceives himself into the belief that the world will like and esteem him as better than he represents himse
Regarding Charles Damoreau's return to live in New York. Transcription: [en]ter Ghost' on my responding to his [Charles Damoreau's] knock at the door. I had heard of his arrival in the city, from John Wood, at Frank Leslie's, where I went to collect a $10 debt from Alf Waud. Charley has not bettered by keeping, was hardly of the vintage for it. He talks verbosely, redundantly, speaks of himself as 'a failure,' and by elaborate, ostentatious, yet amusingly expressed candor on the subject deceives himself into the belief that the world will like and esteem him as better than he represents himself. At first he got a weeks employment at some private engraving firm, is now one of F. Leslie ?s corps. He was not on speaking terms with [Joseph] Brightly, foreman of the engraving department, but Leslie 'introduced' 'em and the difficulty was smoothed over. Brightly does the intensely gentlemanly after his conception of it and humiliates Charley by displays of magnamity, all of which Damoreau descants on, not without humor. He is evidently bound to send on a certain sum weekly to his wife [Beatrice Damoreau], under penalty of reproach and recrimination if he doesn't. His approbativeness and candor allow one to get a perfect idea of the feeling existing between them. 'A man oughtn't to get married unless he can make up his mind to produce so much for wife and family,' says, in effect Madame Title: Thomas Butler Gunn Diaries: Volume 11, page 126, November 13, 1859 . 13 November 1859. Gunn, Thomas Butler, 1826-1903
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