Describes encountering a drunken Mr. McCulloch. Transcription: A Drunken Compositor. Supposed Grace [Eldredge] and Mort [Thomson] were engaged. Had been to Mrs. [Sophy] Thomsons ?, probably with Mort, or [Edward] Wells, before he came hither. Dancing. ?ǣSnapdragon, ? down-stairs. Left, with [James] Morris at 12. Fire-alarm and rush of firemen along Broadway side-walks. More folks at home. To bed by 1. 3. Tuesday. Down-town, to ?ǣCourier ? Office. [Charles F.] Briggs there. He was one of Fanny [Fern] ?s callers yesterday and, as usual, affected the slightly-mysterious about it. To ?ǣPic. ? Off
Describes encountering a drunken Mr. McCulloch. Transcription: A Drunken Compositor. Supposed Grace [Eldredge] and Mort [Thomson] were engaged. Had been to Mrs. [Sophy] Thomsons ?, probably with Mort, or [Edward] Wells, before he came hither. Dancing. ?ǣSnapdragon, ? down-stairs. Left, with [James] Morris at 12. Fire-alarm and rush of firemen along Broadway side-walks. More folks at home. To bed by 1. 3. Tuesday. Down-town, to ?ǣCourier ? Office. [Charles F.] Briggs there. He was one of Fanny [Fern] ?s callers yesterday and, as usual, affected the slightly-mysterious about it. To ?ǣPic. ? Office. The foreman, Mc. Culloch at the bottom of the stairs, drunk and mournful, insisting on taking my arm and squeezing himself considerably, in the attempt to walk thus along the narrow places. Some months ago the man offended me, and I had a bit of a dispute with him; since then, whenever he is inebriated, he always returns to the subject, repenting, as it were, in dust-and-ashes. Up-stairs, Bob Gun, engravers, printers and confusion. It appeared that Mc. C. had presented himself, in the morning, too drunk to ?ǣlock up the form ? of the paper, all he did resulting in ?ǣpi-ing ? matter. [Frank] Cahill remonstrating energetically, Mc. pitched into him, and a violent scuffle ended in Cahill ?s bolting down-stairs, leaving his hat behind him. Gun anticipated the paper wouldn ?t go to press Title: Thomas Butler Gunn Diaries: Volume 12, page 9, January 2-3, 1860 . 2 January 1860. Gunn, Thomas Butler, 1826-1903
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