Describes Frederick Edge. Transcription: two or three half condemnatory lines. I used to chaff [Frederick] Edge about it. He must have made his $50 or more, at that time. Since he generaled himself out of the Herald, I think he did but little. His wife was an Alsatian ? a dress maker or something of the sort. He lived with her as his mistress before marriage. He had known her in Paris. I saw her once, walking with him, talking French very rapidly, and holding up her skirts. Not pretty, but had good legs. Edge+?-?-?s father forgave the marriage and his sisters wrote kindly to his wife. Edge h
Describes Frederick Edge. Transcription: two or three half condemnatory lines. I used to chaff [Frederick] Edge about it. He must have made his $50 or more, at that time. Since he generaled himself out of the Herald, I think he did but little. His wife was an Alsatian ? a dress maker or something of the sort. He lived with her as his mistress before marriage. He had known her in Paris. I saw her once, walking with him, talking French very rapidly, and holding up her skirts. Not pretty, but had good legs. Edge+?-?-?s father forgave the marriage and his sisters wrote kindly to his wife. Edge had a good deal of miscellaneous knowledge, was good natured, not at all offensive, but from his babbling propensities, and had no opinions worth a bad half penny. I remember [Frank] Cahill being very savage at him, because one Sunday morning he came to the basement of this house, and finding Sol Eytinge and Cahill very drunk ? they had disposed of certain bottles of gin between them ? Edge went about cackling of it to everybody! A very queer little beggar, certainly. He professed extreme orthodoxy, and believed he should sit in Parliament, someday. 23. Tuesday. To [Matthew] Brady+?-?-?s with [William] Leslie, he getting his portrait taken, to give to Miss Bella Farr. Return. Drawing, cut for Harpers. Got a little nervous, rubbed out twice, then did it pretty successfully. A little Phonography at night. +?-?-?Twill take a years application to learn it. A man can get $20 weekly as a phonographic reporter, oftener much more. With what I could make beside by scribbling and drawing, I could afford to have what I desire most of all in this world ? Hannah [Bennett] for my wife. Let me work on, and do my best, every way. I+?-?-?m very very tired of this lonely life, and have been so for many a day. Title: Thomas Butler Gunn Diaries: Volume 9, page 108, March 22-23, 1858 . 22 March 1858. Gunn, Thomas Butler, 1826-1903
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