Mentions his determination to stop lending money. Transcription: 26. Wednesday. Up town again to Davis ? shop. Left note for him. Saw [John] Brougham by the way. Collar purchasing. Return. Down town to Lantern Office. Got $5 paid. To Wells & Webb for blocks. To Lockingtons. Dined &c. Return to room, at work on Reveille subjects. At 5 or so Lockington comes to borrow $2, under promise of payment on the morrow. Lent it. Shall be the Last time though ? or there ?ll be a perpetual dribble of small loans wanted ? whenever he wants money he ?ll come to me. Have had too much of this sort of thing
Mentions his determination to stop lending money. Transcription: 26. Wednesday. Up town again to Davis ? shop. Left note for him. Saw [John] Brougham by the way. Collar purchasing. Return. Down town to Lantern Office. Got $5 paid. To Wells & Webb for blocks. To Lockingtons. Dined &c. Return to room, at work on Reveille subjects. At 5 or so Lockington comes to borrow $2, under promise of payment on the morrow. Lent it. Shall be the Last time though ? or there ?ll be a perpetual dribble of small loans wanted ? whenever he wants money he ?ll come to me. Have had too much of this sort of thing in my day, and invariably lost by it. / Supped at Reade St, then about 8, to Beach. All out at first, so I sat down, and presently in came Will Kidder. Talked to the boy, set him drawing, and in half an hour in came Lotty [Kidder]. She had been Title: Thomas Butler Gunn Diaries: Volume 4, page 126, May 26, 1852 . 26 May 1852. Gunn, Thomas Butler, 1826-1903
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