Describes the scene of a recent fire. Transcription: Supped at Shelley ?s, then to [174] Mulberry Street. Mr [Joseph] Greatbatch out, being officiating at Mr Alcock ?s Panorama of [Winfield] Scott ?s Victories in Mexico. He returning, I stayed till 10. 30. Thursday. Drawing on wood, three ?ǣPicayune ? subjects, two minor, one two-column. Dined at the ?ǣShades, ? then down town by 3 1/2. Called at Bunnells, at the Lantern Office, then to Randall & [Edwin A.] Weed at Dickenson ?s place. Left cuts for them, ? (they being both at work on my drawings.) Met Ab Brown, ? snobbish as usual. Hath had
Describes the scene of a recent fire. Transcription: Supped at Shelley ?s, then to [174] Mulberry Street. Mr [Joseph] Greatbatch out, being officiating at Mr Alcock ?s Panorama of [Winfield] Scott ?s Victories in Mexico. He returning, I stayed till 10. 30. Thursday. Drawing on wood, three ?ǣPicayune ? subjects, two minor, one two-column. Dined at the ?ǣShades, ? then down town by 3 1/2. Called at Bunnells, at the Lantern Office, then to Randall & [Edwin A.] Weed at Dickenson ?s place. Left cuts for them, ? (they being both at work on my drawings.) Met Ab Brown, ? snobbish as usual. Hath had a letter from Charley [Brown], ? he flourishing. / Crossed to Brooklyn, called at Dunsiers, door closed; called on his mother & learnt both had gone off suddenly, anticipated to New London down east. (Mrs Dempster, the Nova Scotian widow whom whilome dwelt at Paterson ?s when I sojourned there, being there.) Rambled across towards Atlantic Street, passing Bartons Packing-box factory, with the recent addition of a prodigious chimney; and presently came to the spot which a recent fire had devastated. A whole block of buildings burned to the cellars, scorched & blackened wall, reek and smother, charred embers and little devilish flames darting their red forky tongues out here and there among the grimy mass. Lots of children & loafers about. Some three or four human beings perished here. A soaked Title: Thomas Butler Gunn Diaries: Volume 5, page 58, September 29-30, 1852 . 29 September 1852. Gunn, Thomas Butler, 1826-1903
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