Describes the Bradbury family. Transcription: (they had reported what others paid) so This couple gave notice they're about to leave. Mrs [Susan] Boley, a decent striving woman, anxiously alert to please and keep her house full, being provoked at at the loss of two hitherto well satisfied boarders, comments sharply on it; the female Bradbury calls landlady a red-headed something or other, and gets orders to march, bag and baggage, which is happily accomplished to the avowed satisfaction of the boarders generally. (Anna [Bradbury] had distinguished herself by throwing a hammer at or near one o
Describes the Bradbury family. Transcription: (they had reported what others paid) so This couple gave notice they're about to leave. Mrs [Susan] Boley, a decent striving woman, anxiously alert to please and keep her house full, being provoked at at the loss of two hitherto well satisfied boarders, comments sharply on it; the female Bradbury calls landlady a red-headed something or other, and gets orders to march, bag and baggage, which is happily accomplished to the avowed satisfaction of the boarders generally. (Anna [Bradbury] had distinguished herself by throwing a hammer at or near one of the women, from a three story elevation, lying about it subsequently.) Her dam said she had never encountered such low people, that all the women were jealous of her dear angel of a girl &c; that the gentlemen liked to have her come in their rooms, they all hugged and kissed her &c ? which last remark made some of 'em look slightly foolish, when I resusitated it. But the men being decent average fellows, nothing worse was done, I ?m pretty confident; though the ill-dragged up girl will probably come to grief some day. Hitherto I've put down but little about my present fellow-boarders, here goes to make a brief dash at doing so. First to complete hints about landlady. Not red-haired as I thought, Title: Thomas Butler Gunn Diaries: Volume 11, page 44, July 9, 1859 . 9 July 1859. Gunn, Thomas Butler, 1826-1903
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