Mentions visiting Bill Collinson in Jersey City and having a conversation with James Brown and Martin, who live in his new boarding house. Transcription: money checked the defendant ?s plea. My heart sickened at the thought of this to any sensitive mind [words crossed out]. Poverty is a serious and most wretched thing ? a great ail, and pampored [pampered] Ignorance alone can deny it. 14. Thursday. Drawing on paper ? unwell ǣloafing. ? 15. Friday. Afternoon to Warren Butler ?s ? I didn ?t get paid ? then to Schnieders [a tailor] in Bowery. Chill, driving windy day. Evening, gossip, Chau
Mentions visiting Bill Collinson in Jersey City and having a conversation with James Brown and Martin, who live in his new boarding house. Transcription: money checked the defendant ?s plea. My heart sickened at the thought of this to any sensitive mind [words crossed out]. Poverty is a serious and most wretched thing ? a great ail, and pampored [pampered] Ignorance alone can deny it. 14. Thursday. Drawing on paper ? unwell ǣloafing. ? 15. Friday. Afternoon to Warren Butler ?s ? I didn ?t get paid ? then to Schnieders [a tailor] in Bowery. Chill, driving windy day. Evening, gossip, Chaucerian reading with a Mr. James Brown, who has just left the room, now. Must check tendency to this, keeping approbativeness down ? Besides Book-information is here, all exported ? nothing imported. Papers, and a letter from [William] Boutcher. (My birthday) 16. Saturday. Work till Evening, then crossed to Jersey and Boot-shop. Old [Bill] Collinson. (Hughie [Muir] away home for the morrow.) Divers glasses of ale and port-wine with Orenford Crispin, then returned to New York. 17. Sunday. Crossed to Jersey, and called at [79] York Street for Collinson, designing a walk. He already started. So alone along the rail-road up to Bergen. Long spearlike Icicles depending from the rocks, dripping water; clear, sunny, chill day. Back to York by dinner time. Reading and dozing subsequently. Fred and Edward [Greatbatch] came, and left. / Read in Police Gazette that Hawkins has got thirty days imprisonment. Serve him right. / Evening, in the sitting room with Brown, [William] Martin and others. Latter gives insight into Slavery position. Anticipates that the Free-soil party Title: Thomas Butler Gunn Diaries: Volume 1, page 89, February 13-17, 1850 . 13 February 1850. Gunn, Thomas Butler, 1826-1903
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