Mentions a bust in which Alf Waud, William Roberts, Alfred Swinton, and Augustus Fay got Schenk drunk before his departure for Boston. Transcription: 17. Tuesday. In doors all day, work on wood, drawings for Reveille and Picayune. Alf [Waud] came in evening, having with [William] Roberts, [Alfred] Swinton and [Augustus] Fay been engaged in ?ǣa bust, ? seeing Schenk off to Boston ? all intent, save Alf to make him infernally drunk, in which they succeeded; but got him aboard the boat in time. Alf now abed. 18. Wednesday. To the Picayune and Reveille Offices. Barton going to quit Reveille. To
Mentions a bust in which Alf Waud, William Roberts, Alfred Swinton, and Augustus Fay got Schenk drunk before his departure for Boston. Transcription: 17. Tuesday. In doors all day, work on wood, drawings for Reveille and Picayune. Alf [Waud] came in evening, having with [William] Roberts, [Alfred] Swinton and [Augustus] Fay been engaged in ?ǣa bust, ? seeing Schenk off to Boston ? all intent, save Alf to make him infernally drunk, in which they succeeded; but got him aboard the boat in time. Alf now abed. 18. Wednesday. To the Picayune and Reveille Offices. Barton going to quit Reveille. To [Cornelius] Mathews at the Literary World Office. Thence saw Lockington, then Holbrook in at the store whereat Frere and [Frank] Bellew sell Valentines. Met Morey there, and chaffed him till he waxed sulkily irate about the escheated 50 cents. Called at the Lantern Title: Thomas Butler Gunn Diaries: Volume 4, page 37, February 17-18, 1852 . 17 February 1852. Gunn, Thomas Butler, 1826-1903
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