Comments on a lecture on phrenology and witnessing a fire in a shop on Front Street. Transcription: portfolio of specimen drawings: ? they in their home-purity, ? simple unquestioning belief in God and the Bible, ere the coarse world sadden them ? a kind thought from one such gentle heart would be as an angels blessing. God bless them. / Return. After dinner at work coloring ?ǣMose [among the Britishers], ? proof of which arrived in the morning, before my going out. Don ?t please me at all. [two lines crossed out] Evening with [Henry] Hart and [Dillon] Mapother to the Clinton Hall. [Lorenz
Comments on a lecture on phrenology and witnessing a fire in a shop on Front Street. Transcription: portfolio of specimen drawings: ? they in their home-purity, ? simple unquestioning belief in God and the Bible, ere the coarse world sadden them ? a kind thought from one such gentle heart would be as an angels blessing. God bless them. / Return. After dinner at work coloring ?ǣMose [among the Britishers], ? proof of which arrived in the morning, before my going out. Don ?t please me at all. [two lines crossed out] Evening with [Henry] Hart and [Dillon] Mapother to the Clinton Hall. [Lorenzo Niles] Fowler & [Samuel R.] Wells lecturing on Phrenology. (Common-place plaster-of-paris-phrenology. Bumpologizing; ? a great science contemptibly and inelegantly set-forth. Bah. Returned and the fire-bells ringing consumedly, we three, and Scotch [William] Hunter set off. Arrived in John Street, fire out; ? but the ?ǣmasheenes ? travelling on, and pedestrians the same, we follow in the wake. Hurrying down Wall Street, ? anon the atmosphere becomes dense and painful to respiration ? a ruddy glare in the distance. Arrived at Coeuties Shop ? and we ?re at the scene of action. A store in Front Street on fire, ? burning downwards ? blaze shooting up aloft in the cold night air, thick smoke blurring out the pale moon gliding silently on. A busy throng of gazers, b ?hoys with their ?ǣengynes ? working heroically, ? huge pots of water, shoutings and clamour, dull heavy noise of the engines being worked, ? hoarde bowling through trumpets, red flannel shirts and helmets, ? hurry skurry, here, there, and every where. The fire progresses ? wind wafts sparks across to a house in the rear, ? and soon that is in flames. And then, how awfully beautiful was the scene; ? when the red blaze lit up the distant windows, ? the shipping, ? the anxious faces of Title: Thomas Butler Gunn Diaries: Volume 1, page 105, April 24, 1850 . 24 April 1850. Gunn, Thomas Butler, 1826-1903
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