Mentions having difficulty obtaining a room at Alfred Waud's boarding house. Transcription: and [Joseph H.] Brightly for whom I called to supper. To Office again, subsequently, with [Alfred] Waud. I writing. Pain gone but horribly weak. 22. Tuesday. Drawing & down town. To Franklin Street for meals. [Charles] Welden called, requesting me as I intended to hear Theodore Parker lecture at the Tabernacle this night, to take his wife also. Down town with him, to the 'Times' Office; ? introduced to [Henry J.] Raymond the Editor. Office again. Evening to the Lecture, with Mrs Welden. 'Twas on 'The
Mentions having difficulty obtaining a room at Alfred Waud's boarding house. Transcription: and [Joseph H.] Brightly for whom I called to supper. To Office again, subsequently, with [Alfred] Waud. I writing. Pain gone but horribly weak. 22. Tuesday. Drawing & down town. To Franklin Street for meals. [Charles] Welden called, requesting me as I intended to hear Theodore Parker lecture at the Tabernacle this night, to take his wife also. Down town with him, to the 'Times' Office; ? introduced to [Henry J.] Raymond the Editor. Office again. Evening to the Lecture, with Mrs Welden. 'Twas on 'The Caucasian Race & Anglo Saxonism.' First of the varieties of race, and superiority of the one chosen, then historical of its branches, and their migrations; of the Teutonic stock, and thence immediately to the Anglo & American Saxon. A good lecture, with some bold out-speakings anent Slavery. 23. Wednesday. [Charles] Brown returns from Boston; and I having to give up occupation of his room, and the indecisive mistress of the boarding house having played fast & loose about the room designed for me, I quit. There's a fellow at that house who has brains & can talk well. One [Fayette] Robinson a tall, black haired, haggard looking Virgininian. He has been in the Army, and travelled extensively & seen much. What ever subject may be broached, he can talk on it Title: Thomas Butler Gunn Diaries: Volume 5, page 160, February 21-23, 1853 . 21 February 1853. Gunn, Thomas Butler, 1826-1903
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