Comments on how New York is like Paris and gives his opinion of Charles Brown [later Charles Damoreau]. Transcription: 9. Friday. Drawing till Evening. Then calling on [Hardin] Andrews, out with him, meeting Greeley and Cynic Martin ere long. At divers drinking saloons, domino-playing &c. Parted from em about 11. New York is another Paris for a Sensualist, I believe, and as bad a place as may well be for the training of a youth with money in+?-?-?s pocket. The luxurious restaurants, handsome women flitting about in free and easy converse, the liquors ? road to Hell gilded, all of it. I+?-?-?
Comments on how New York is like Paris and gives his opinion of Charles Brown [later Charles Damoreau]. Transcription: 9. Friday. Drawing till Evening. Then calling on [Hardin] Andrews, out with him, meeting Greeley and Cynic Martin ere long. At divers drinking saloons, domino-playing &c. Parted from em about 11. New York is another Paris for a Sensualist, I believe, and as bad a place as may well be for the training of a youth with money in+?-?-?s pocket. The luxurious restaurants, handsome women flitting about in free and easy converse, the liquors ? road to Hell gilded, all of it. I+?-?-?d better been reading, spite of eyesight. Met the murderer and scribbler yclept +?-?-?Jack the Rambler+?-?-? in the course of the evening. 10. Saturday. To the Life Office, calling in at [Ben] Kierstierns by the way. Mattice away down east. Met Joe [Greatbatch], (he leaves [168] Duane Street this night) At Holts for a few minutes, talking with Mrs [Sarah] Richardson. What a homelike appearance was there in the room of the good tempered Yorkshire woman. Return to [177] Canal, and in doors till 4, then off, first to Mattice, then [Jonathan F.] Badeau+?-?-?s, both in vain. Purchased [Edward] Bulwer [Lytton]+?-?-?s Zanoni for a shilling, for the pleasure of reading it again. Basmaison [Dillon] Mapother called in the evening. out with him for half an hour, when he returned with me to the company of [Charles F.] Brown. Conversation and lemonade. / My fellow boarder is a nice, gentlemanly fellow, sincerely pious, and loves his Annie [Ward] dearly. I like him. But oh me! how how I envy him. Six short weeks she will be his, he talks to me of her; her portrait is here, he narrateth his wooing, I jest with and rally him, ? he cannot bear her to be away a whole month ? Oh God when I think of her [Mary Bilton] I love how, how far off in every sense how I envy him. To look at happiness through the eyes of another, how bitter it is ? Title: Thomas Butler Gunn Diaries: Volume 1, page 151, A
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