Mentions that Thomas Picton is talking about going to Texas in anticipation of another war with Mexico. Transcription: called. Remained drawing till evening. A scorching blazing, glaring day, thermometer 97 in the shade. Oppressive, working, great sweatdrops plashing down on blocks. Mr [Henry] Hart called. They all at [Joseph] Richardsons yesterday. Evening to Beach Street for some half hour. Saw Mrs K [Rebecca Kidder]. Lott [Charlotte Kidder] out. She and Sedgwick delivered the Entertainment at Mount Vernon, village up the Hudson, on Saturday. Back yesterday. (To Gymnasium. Some two or three
Mentions that Thomas Picton is talking about going to Texas in anticipation of another war with Mexico. Transcription: called. Remained drawing till evening. A scorching blazing, glaring day, thermometer 97 in the shade. Oppressive, working, great sweatdrops plashing down on blocks. Mr [Henry] Hart called. They all at [Joseph] Richardsons yesterday. Evening to Beach Street for some half hour. Saw Mrs K [Rebecca Kidder]. Lott [Charlotte Kidder] out. She and Sedgwick delivered the Entertainment at Mount Vernon, village up the Hudson, on Saturday. Back yesterday. (To Gymnasium. Some two or three fellows there, Carroll among em. Had a bath, then to Erfords, finding [Alfred] Waud & [Charles] Damoreau there, having come in from a boating excusion. 21. Tuesday. Down town. Picayune &c Met Hawkins, returned from Philadelphia to Brooklyn. Bah! To room and drawing. Hotter than ever. At 6 1/2 called for Waud & Charley. To Battery, then out in Boat, rowed over to Brooklyn & a bathe in Buttermilk channel. Back & gained the Battery by 9. Erfords. Mr Hart & Dillon [Mapother] there anon. 22. Wednesday. Down town calls. Return to room. Hart & Londoner [Yatman] called. Out for a glass of claret with them, and return. Met [Thomas] Picton, talked of going next week to Texas, editing & filibustering, anticipating forthcoming Mexican wars again. He was clad en black, Title: Thomas Butler Gunn Diaries: Volume 5, page 225, June 20-22, 1853 . 20 June 1853. Gunn, Thomas Butler, 1826-1903
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