Mentions his work and his frustration with his present situation. Transcription: 11. Sunday. Morning mis-spent by going to the Battery. There reading Zanoni [by Edward Bulwer-Lytton]. Met Frank Royal, and afterwards [William] Hunter. With the latter walked back, looking into the Astor House in out way. Called at Mr [Henry] Harts. Reading all the afternoon. Evening with Mr Hart & [William] Martin to Hoboken, and a ramble there. Glorious sunset. (What an absurdity have I perpetrated in yesterdays chronicle, writing down [Dillon] Mapother as Basmaison ? verily he is like him. 12. Monday. In-doo
Mentions his work and his frustration with his present situation. Transcription: 11. Sunday. Morning mis-spent by going to the Battery. There reading Zanoni [by Edward Bulwer-Lytton]. Met Frank Royal, and afterwards [William] Hunter. With the latter walked back, looking into the Astor House in out way. Called at Mr [Henry] Harts. Reading all the afternoon. Evening with Mr Hart & [William] Martin to Hoboken, and a ramble there. Glorious sunset. (What an absurdity have I perpetrated in yesterdays chronicle, writing down [Dillon] Mapother as Basmaison ? verily he is like him. 12. Monday. In-doors all day, reading and matagrabolized. Sitting with [Charles F.] Brown during the evening, Joe [Greatbatch] called, (to borrow $2) 13. Tuesday. To the ?ǣLife ? Office. Mattice still down east; engaged by Van Fleet to scribble a little there. At it all the morning. Afternoon down town again. Calling in at the ?ǣAtlas ? Office disposed of the sketch of ?ǣthe B ?hoys running with the masheene. ? To Wells & Webb; to Wall Street-?; then to the ?ǣLife ? Office. Writing all the afternoon. Evening in doors; a terrific rain and lightning storm out. In company with Brown; whom I am learning to like more and more. 14. Wednesday. To the ?ǣLife ? Office, calling once or twice at [Jonathan F.] Badeaus. Afternoon the same, and about Nassau. Returned very blue devilled; ? heartily weary of this ?ǣholding-on ? desultory life; ? so heart sick of it, and of the dim future, and impatiently angry with myself for not doing what perchance I could not ? (striking out into some better sphere;) ? that I veritably felt curious of the carmen and bricklayers in the street, at their stated, fairly recompensed toil. Ah me, for how Title: Thomas Butler Gunn Diaries: Volume 1, page 152, August 11-14, 1850 . 11 August 1850. Gunn, Thomas Butler, 1826-1903
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