Includes engraving of the Restaurant du Grand Vatel in Bleecker Street, New York. Transcription: RESTAURANT DU GRAND VATEL IN BLEECKER STREET. [Gunn ?s handwriting] The above engraving represents a house on the corner of Wooster and Bleecker Streets; the adjoining one in the foreground, of which one only sees the a bit of the basement-railing (where the gate was), being No the old No. 132, where I lived so long. It had a doorway and massive iron ornaments on each side of the steps, like its neighbour. Both houses were had gone down in the world, when I last saw them in 18712 3, but were
Includes engraving of the Restaurant du Grand Vatel in Bleecker Street, New York. Transcription: RESTAURANT DU GRAND VATEL IN BLEECKER STREET. [Gunn ?s handwriting] The above engraving represents a house on the corner of Wooster and Bleecker Streets; the adjoining one in the foreground, of which one only sees the a bit of the basement-railing (where the gate was), being No the old No. 132, where I lived so long. It had a doorway and massive iron ornaments on each side of the steps, like its neighbour. Both houses were had gone down in the world, when I last saw them in 18712 3, but were the only tenements which retained even a suggestion of their past respectability. Now they appertain to ?ǣthe French Quarter of New York. ? The cut is from an article, thus named, in ?ǣScribner ?s Monthly ? for November, 1879. Title: Thomas Butler Gunn Diaries: Volume 12, page 5, November 1879 . November 1879. Gunn, Thomas Butler, 1826-1903
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