Mentions that Mr. Phillips is trying to invent a washing machine. Transcription: Sally [Edwards] ?s Birthday. [adver]tisements. He [Mr. Hankins] found out they knew me, and praised me hugely; said I was ?ǣa good Latin scholar! ? This Phillips is a kindly, sawney-speaking fellow with an inventive genius. He is going in for a washing-machine and [Frank] Cahill predicts he ?ll be a richer man than any boarder in the house in a year or two. Likely enough. Queer, anomalous characteristics men do possess. 15. Tuesday. [Henry] Addey called for copy. Writing. Out for an hour. Down-town by 4, to ?ǣMom
Mentions that Mr. Phillips is trying to invent a washing machine. Transcription: Sally [Edwards] ?s Birthday. [adver]tisements. He [Mr. Hankins] found out they knew me, and praised me hugely; said I was ?ǣa good Latin scholar! ? This Phillips is a kindly, sawney-speaking fellow with an inventive genius. He is going in for a washing-machine and [Frank] Cahill predicts he ?ll be a richer man than any boarder in the house in a year or two. Likely enough. Queer, anomalous characteristics men do possess. 15. Tuesday. [Henry] Addey called for copy. Writing. Out for an hour. Down-town by 4, to ?ǣMomus ? Office, ?ǣCourier ? and ?ǣNic-nax. ? Returned up-town with [Jesse] Haney, he supped with me, stayed an hour and then we went to 745 [Broadway]. The girls [Sally, Matty, and Eliza Edwards], Jack [Edwards] and, later, pater and materfamilias [George and Sarah Edwards] present. Sally ?s 19th birthday tomorrow. Haney is trying to get ?ǣon ? the ?ǣTribune ? as mail-editor. 16. Wednesday. Writing during the morning. Down-town during the afternoon, to ?ǣMomus ? Office. Addey and [Charles] Briggs there, latter in a clok cloak, writing and looking foxy. Writing all the evening till 12 and later. 17. Thursday. Early morning walk to 10th street. Down-town with [Amos] Bowman; to Harper ?s with story. Talking with John Bonner and [Charles] Nordhoff when [Frank] Bellew came. Together we found Title: Thomas Butler Gunn Diaries: Volume 12, page 208, May 14-17, 1860 . 14 May 1860. Gunn, Thomas Butler, 1826-1903
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