States that he regrets losing the extra $3 per week Hawkins would have paid him since Hawkins has been arrested. Transcription: ?ǣRevelations ? set up ? tell me Hawkin ?s examination comes on in the afternoon. Hearty grin and wet, wet walk home. (Now the possibility is that it ?s deserved; yet its inopportune ? I should have got some $3 a week, (a great help,) and that, without writing a ?ǣromance of passion. ? 19. Saturday. ?ǣMose [among the Britishers] ? till Evening. Then a long solitary stoll about New York ? the Bowery and thereabouts. In the fancy fair looking at prints and humans. B
States that he regrets losing the extra $3 per week Hawkins would have paid him since Hawkins has been arrested. Transcription: ?ǣRevelations ? set up ? tell me Hawkin ?s examination comes on in the afternoon. Hearty grin and wet, wet walk home. (Now the possibility is that it ?s deserved; yet its inopportune ? I should have got some $3 a week, (a great help,) and that, without writing a ?ǣromance of passion. ? 19. Saturday. ?ǣMose [among the Britishers] ? till Evening. Then a long solitary stoll about New York ? the Bowery and thereabouts. In the fancy fair looking at prints and humans. Back by 10 to Jersey. 20. Sunday. Walk to the Rocks with Hughie [Muir] and [Bill] Collinson in the morning. The rest of the day writing to my father [Samuel Gunn]. 21. Monday. Writing all day long, to my father, Naomi [Gunn] and Sam [Gunn, Jr.]. Rain, snow, sleet, mud, mist and miserables out of doors. Evening drawing. 22. Tuesday. Drawing. Afternoon, crossed to New York. To Fulton Street, to Chamber [Chambers] Street, then to Duane ?ǣPark, ? where I decided on having the room, ?front one; $3 1/2 a week, fuel found. $3 in summer. Then after a stroll back to Jersey. 23. Wednesday. Sitting drawing, when in rushes old Collinson and bids me hurry out with him to see the race betwixt the ?ǣCanada ? and ?ǣGeorgia. ? So we went to the pier, and saw the Canada clear out ? but of the race nothing as the American vessel lay down at Governor ?s Island. Great talk theron, during the remainder of the day ? had to call up the failures of the ?ǣWashington ? and ?ǣHerman ? to act as an Title: Thomas Butler Gunn Diaries: Volume 1, page 77, January 18-23, 1850 . 18 January 1850. Gunn, Thomas Butler, 1826-1903
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