Describes attending a supper party at the Cooke family's house. Transcription: defunct chickens. To Charley [Gunn] ?s in Paternoster Row, there talking with Cornelius Bagster. Home, dinner, and letter writing. By 6 Miss [Mary Priscilla] and Mrs [Mary Fitzjohn] Waud came, both having been to the Sydenham Palace, and both having had their daguerreotypes taken, the latter for her son Alf [Waud], the former consigned to me provisionally, ? to be his, if he expressed a desire for it. They had tea, and were presently in the garden. Mrs Waud talked much of the Marshall ?s &c. I think she has but a
Describes attending a supper party at the Cooke family's house. Transcription: defunct chickens. To Charley [Gunn] ?s in Paternoster Row, there talking with Cornelius Bagster. Home, dinner, and letter writing. By 6 Miss [Mary Priscilla] and Mrs [Mary Fitzjohn] Waud came, both having been to the Sydenham Palace, and both having had their daguerreotypes taken, the latter for her son Alf [Waud], the former consigned to me provisionally, ? to be his, if he expressed a desire for it. They had tea, and were presently in the garden. Mrs Waud talked much of the Marshall ?s &c. I think she has but a shallow mind. She ?s prone to deceive, inconclusive views for this, snubs her children sans tact and sense, and seems to know little of their natures, or her own. I had half an hour ?s tete a tete with her daughter. She told me that Will [Waud] ?s Sydenham girl had called at the Vassall Terrace since his departure; and knew all about it, so there was no outspoken confidence between us on that matter. (She I ?m sure, believes that the intimacy was no Platonic one.) She told me also that her mother wanted her to marry a wealthy old man, whom she don ?t like, with much more; intimating her belief that she wouldn ?t marry at all, ? nor should I. We talked very frankly, and she looked very pretty. Charley came. Saw Miss & Mrs Waud to the 'Elephant', then, presently with Charley to the Surrey Zoological, seeing the mock storming of Sebastopol. Thence to the residence of the Cooke ?s & the Fancy fair, supping at the former by 12, and having a bit of a dance subsequently, I being again challenged to ?t by Louisa Hogarth. The Cooke's are brothers, one of whom has married a wealthy woman, older than himself, the other living with them. Miss Vaughan was there; ? also a nephew of Cardinal Wiseman ?s, who proved Title: Thomas Butler Gunn Diaries: Volume 7, page 109, July 13, 1855 . 13 July 1855. Gunn, Thomas Butler, 1826-1903
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