Mentions a story of his being accepted for publication by Charles Dickens. Transcription: A Story accepted by [Charles] Dickens. to-do Fifth-Avenoodle, they say, ? to the amount of $4,000, though the ?ǣSaturday Press. ? This [Robert] Pearsall is to marry Ada Clare, who, consequently, doesn ?t show so much among the Pfaff clique. He originated dreary, innocentish, gushing bosh entitled ?ǣLeaves from Nature ? in the , had getting men to re-write ?em as he couldn ?t do English himself; he had his name printed in conjunction with [Henry] Clapp ?s, as ?ǣeditor and proprietor. ? Last week he
Mentions a story of his being accepted for publication by Charles Dickens. Transcription: A Story accepted by [Charles] Dickens. to-do Fifth-Avenoodle, they say, ? to the amount of $4,000, though the ?ǣSaturday Press. ? This [Robert] Pearsall is to marry Ada Clare, who, consequently, doesn ?t show so much among the Pfaff clique. He originated dreary, innocentish, gushing bosh entitled ?ǣLeaves from Nature ? in the , had getting men to re-write ?em as he couldn ?t do English himself; he had his name printed in conjunction with [Henry] Clapp ?s, as ?ǣeditor and proprietor. ? Last week he fired off piddling satire at the Pfaff clique in the ?ǣCourier, ? which [Charles] Briggs, getting it for nothing, printed. 6. Friday. Drawing &c. [Arthur] Ledger up by 12 1/2, says he ?s positively off for Washington (?) to-day, out to the Optimus with him. In the afternoon got letter note from Charles Dickens ? my story ?ǣretained for insertion. ? Down-town to Harpers, too late to catch [John] Bonner. Evening, in doors. [George] Boweryem and Hilton the printer up. Talk about [Heenan-Sayers] fight-hoax. 7 6. Saturday. Down town by noon. To Harper ?s, missed Bonner again. [Jack] Sears came up, with him to Crook and Duff ?s, where we met [Frank] Cahill, with whom I had walked down town. To Courier office; Cahill, Abrahams, [James] Smith and anon Briggs there, chaffing. Up to the ?ǣTribune ? Office twice, to get payment Title: Thomas Butler Gunn Diaries: Volume 12, page 140, April 5-7, 1860 . 5 April 1860. Gunn, Thomas Butler, 1826-1903
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