Describes a journey from New York to Boston. Transcription: departure of the Viceroy, [Dillon] Mapother meeting us there. Back through Nassau Street. To Chamber Street for key of carpet-bag. Dinner. Then to Christopher Street. Then stuffing carpet bag, bathing, dressing and hurrying until nigh 5, at which time down to the Pier and aboard, Mr [Henry] Hart ?ǣseeing me off. ? Plenty of wind, more than needful. Fraternized with a young American-Irishman, returning to Boston, (he having according to his own account been on an extensive ?ǣbatter ? during the past week, in the Empire City. Up the Ea
Describes a journey from New York to Boston. Transcription: departure of the Viceroy, [Dillon] Mapother meeting us there. Back through Nassau Street. To Chamber Street for key of carpet-bag. Dinner. Then to Christopher Street. Then stuffing carpet bag, bathing, dressing and hurrying until nigh 5, at which time down to the Pier and aboard, Mr [Henry] Hart ?ǣseeing me off. ? Plenty of wind, more than needful. Fraternized with a young American-Irishman, returning to Boston, (he having according to his own account been on an extensive ?ǣbatter ? during the past week, in the Empire City. Up the East River, Hell Gate with its archipelago of Rocks; Blackwells Island, the ?ǣSand ? innumerable other islands, channels, villas, trees, sloping banks, all solitary and lonely enough to the view, driving wind, with once a sunburst through the slate-hued clouds. Talk with a well spoken nigger on abolition and Liberia. Cigar. Growing dull went inside. Lay down on huge piles of leather smelling like a hundred shoemakers shops, dose by the furnace. Supper bell ? folks all devouring below, didn ?t join ?em, though hungry. Uneasy doze on the hides, engine crashing, shrieking and palpitating at my back. An hour or so; ? got some provant. Then leather couch again, with alternate perambulations ?bout the boat. Past midnight by an hour or more. . 23. Sunday. . .and we take the cars. On we go, as if harnessed to a huge stupid ox legged gryphon, snorting and roaring brute indignation at being in harness. Little capes, woodland, white new-looking houses, any amount of water whether dike, ditch or river. Towns ? Worcester, [unclear word], Framingham (minding one of Shansby in Beazlien times) Norwich ? churches, meeting houses, shanties, wide waste of lands Title: Thomas Butler Gunn Diaries: Volume 1, page 127, June 22-23, 1850 . 22 June 1850. Gunn, Thomas Butler, 1826-1903
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