Comments on the Duke of Wellington upon learning of his death. Transcription: is the carrier ?s wont. A notable man [Duke of Wellington] gone, and one whom England will long hold in rememberance [remembrance]. I liked the old Duke inasmuch as there was no cant about him ? born and reared an aristocrat, how could he be aught else. His great military services ? (surely he was the greatest living Soldier in fairly out-generalling the callous-hearted Corsican despot [Napoleon I],) were the result of his idea of duty to his country. He didn ?t rave about ?ǣSuns of Australitz ? & forty ages sitti
Comments on the Duke of Wellington upon learning of his death. Transcription: is the carrier ?s wont. A notable man [Duke of Wellington] gone, and one whom England will long hold in rememberance [remembrance]. I liked the old Duke inasmuch as there was no cant about him ? born and reared an aristocrat, how could he be aught else. His great military services ? (surely he was the greatest living Soldier in fairly out-generalling the callous-hearted Corsican despot [Napoleon I],) were the result of his idea of duty to his country. He didn ?t rave about ?ǣSuns of Australitz ? & forty ages sitting on a Pyramid ? & such bosh, ? to his legions ? military brevity & duty & discipline. He was an English gentleman & he overthrew Napoleon! Let his memory be honored for it! What infinite hate & spite must have raged in the tyrant ?s heart to dictate in his will, a pension to the scoundrel who attempted Wellington ?s assassination. / Down town, to Reveille & Lantern Offices, Bunnell & Prices, gossip with [Cornelius] Mathews & then returned to room and drawing. Did large Reveille cuts. Dined at 2 at ?ǣShades. ? Room again, drew rebusses &c, down town, Lockingtons, Randall ?s (getting cut from [Edwin A.] Weed given him to do on Saturday, & paying him.) Gave Randall Reveille cut. To Bunnell & Prices, to Well ?s & Webbs ? got blocks. To [] Chapin ?s, found [Alfred] Waud there, and a black-bearded good humored German. Stayed looking over drawings & an hour, then returned to room. Title: Thomas Butler Gunn Diaries: Volume 5, page 57, September 29, 1852 . 29 September 1852. Gunn, Thomas Butler, 1826-1903
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