Describes an evening spent with Charles Moorhouse and others in their boarding house. Transcription: afternoon [Charley] Moorhouse came up, to invite me to his room, and about 4 I descended. He, [Bill] Reynolds, Bland, [James P.] Nagle, and more two others there. Singing with piano forte accompaniment, national songs &c, with imbibition and fumigation to any extent. The little shrewd pleasant-voiced boy, Bland ?s son sang several songs, being held by the hands the while, inasmuch as he twisted and writhed in most strange fashion, the which I found to be owing to Saint Vitus ?s dance. / How we
Describes an evening spent with Charles Moorhouse and others in their boarding house. Transcription: afternoon [Charley] Moorhouse came up, to invite me to his room, and about 4 I descended. He, [Bill] Reynolds, Bland, [James P.] Nagle, and more two others there. Singing with piano forte accompaniment, national songs &c, with imbibition and fumigation to any extent. The little shrewd pleasant-voiced boy, Bland ?s son sang several songs, being held by the hands the while, inasmuch as he twisted and writhed in most strange fashion, the which I found to be owing to Saint Vitus ?s dance. / How well the players are described in Gil Blas. Moorhouse sang songs at a great rate and made speeches. / Bland found out the passage in [William] Shakspeare wherein that Mosey word ?ǣmuss ? is to be found. It is in Antony and Cleopatra. / Some of em played Whist, and them Poker. I looked on. Title: Thomas Butler Gunn Diaries: Volume 4, page 15, January 18, 1852 . 18 January 1852. Gunn, Thomas Butler, 1826-1903
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