Gives his thoughts on suicide. Comments on pursuing work with local publishers and his frustration with the difficulties of getting up fortune's ladder. Transcription: first love, ambition, the bliss of loving, with the final ?ǣAnd it has come to this ? ? But I should say that it is more often done in a moment of excitement, not thoughtfully. / Joe [Greatbatch] and George [Bolton] calling in the Evening went out with them. Bagatelle and whist at tavern kept by an Englishman. 27. Friday. New York. [Benjamin F.] Childs unwell. Saw his ill-looking and ill mannered partner [Albert H.] Jocelyn.
Gives his thoughts on suicide. Comments on pursuing work with local publishers and his frustration with the difficulties of getting up fortune's ladder. Transcription: first love, ambition, the bliss of loving, with the final ?ǣAnd it has come to this ? ? But I should say that it is more often done in a moment of excitement, not thoughtfully. / Joe [Greatbatch] and George [Bolton] calling in the Evening went out with them. Bagatelle and whist at tavern kept by an Englishman. 27. Friday. New York. [Benjamin F.] Childs unwell. Saw his ill-looking and ill mannered partner [Albert H.] Jocelyn. Half an hour at Bobbett and Edmonds, then a call on [James] Stringer. Decisions as to ?ǣMose ? and the Railway trip postponed to Next Week. [words crossed out] A walk with George about the Waterside, in the Evening. If I augur aright he ?ll return home ere three months has passed. 28. Saturday. Called twice at Childs ? in the morning; he out both times. A call at Robert Roberts. He out of town. Talk with his man. Another unsuccessful call at Childs in the afternoon. Returned blue devilled, head-hanging down, snarl-faced, and thinking that I ought not to finding getting up fortune ?s ladder so difficult. Evening looked in at the Pork Store. Plenty of musquittoes and but comparatively few customers. Mr. [Joseph] Greatbatch called there. Title: Thomas Butler Gunn Diaries: Volume 1, page 10, July 26-28, 1849 . 26 July 1849. Gunn, Thomas Butler, 1826-1903
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