Regarding James Morris leaving his boarding house. Transcription: [James] Morris explains. and Burger. Griswold and Miss Susan Woodworth [Woodward], or ?ǣSusie, ? as she delights to call herself, were together looking over a book, [Peter] Cutler alone on the sofa. Cahill [Frank] Cahill told me, subsequently, that after quitting me he ?d wandered about taking drinks, finally visiting the ?ǣOptimus, ? where, disparaging Lipscomb ?s brandy, that ex-guardsman had insisted on his trying every variety of eau de vie he had in the house! However Cahill says he wasn ?t drunk, and certainly he didn ?t
Regarding James Morris leaving his boarding house. Transcription: [James] Morris explains. and Burger. Griswold and Miss Susan Woodworth [Woodward], or ?ǣSusie, ? as she delights to call herself, were together looking over a book, [Peter] Cutler alone on the sofa. Cahill [Frank] Cahill told me, subsequently, that after quitting me he ?d wandered about taking drinks, finally visiting the ?ǣOptimus, ? where, disparaging Lipscomb ?s brandy, that ex-guardsman had insisted on his trying every variety of eau de vie he had in the house! However Cahill says he wasn ?t drunk, and certainly he didn ?t look anything but miserable, when in the parlor. When I was undressing for bed, [Amos] Bowman came in and wanted to know what had become of Morris! 31. Thursday. Writing ?ǣMomus ? work. Morris up about 12, explaining his departure, after effecting which he had looked in at 745 [Broadway], ?ǣthinking some of the young ladies might like to accompany him to the opera, ? and finding Matty [Edwards] and Jack [Edwards] going to the Gymnasium, joined them. He proposes ?ǣto bore me ? with certain of his old lady patrons writings ?ǣfor the benefit of my suggestions, ? and says she intends going into the country in a month or so, taking him with her. A sort of literary being taken in keeping. Down town by 3 1/2, to ?ǣMomus ? Office, [Henry] Addey exulting over his Title: Thomas Butler Gunn Diaries: Volume 12, page 235, May 30-31, 1860 . 30 May 1860. Gunn, Thomas Butler, 1826-1903
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