Describes a visit to Alf and Mary Waud in Boston. Transcription: his ?ǣengaging himself ? to Miss [Mary Pauline] Cruise of Detroit. About every where with Helmsm ller. To the other big hotels when ?ǣhopes ? were in progress. Rambles on my own hook along the coast, to the ?ǣHanging Rock, ? ?ǣSpouting Rock, ? ?Conrad ?s Cave ? &c, sometimes strolling all alone over the smooth and hardened sand, now clambering amid the rocks, and anon indulging in luxurious and solitary bathing. Back generally to 3 o ?clock dinner, writing or looking at the promenaders subsequently, and to the ?ǣhops ? or misce
Describes a visit to Alf and Mary Waud in Boston. Transcription: his ?ǣengaging himself ? to Miss [Mary Pauline] Cruise of Detroit. About every where with Helmsm ller. To the other big hotels when ?ǣhopes ? were in progress. Rambles on my own hook along the coast, to the ?ǣHanging Rock, ? ?ǣSpouting Rock, ? ?Conrad ?s Cave ? &c, sometimes strolling all alone over the smooth and hardened sand, now clambering amid the rocks, and anon indulging in luxurious and solitary bathing. Back generally to 3 o ?clock dinner, writing or looking at the promenaders subsequently, and to the ?ǣhops ? or miscellaneous loafing at night. Introdued to no end of people. Champagne at dinner, and everything in good style. [Matthew] Brady has been to Boston and returned, has seen Alf Waud and says he expects me. 22. Saturday. By the little steamer Perry to Providence which looked very bright and pretty in the sunny afternoon. Thence by cars to Boston arriving at 6, Alf and ?ǣMrs [Mary] Waud ? meeting me at the depot. He well, as usual, she very fair and plump. Through the torturous narrow streets to their boarding house ? one to which they have just moved, leaving their child [Mary Gertrude Waud] out at nurse in Charlestown. This is preparation for an intended journey west, to Kentucky or Indiana, where she will sue for a divorce from [Albert] Brainard, upon obtaining which Waud will be married to her. The project has been talked of for the last two years. Waud came on to New York during my absence up the Hudson, to see [Henry] Hart about Title: Thomas Butler Gunn Diaries: Volume 8, page 218, August 12-22, 1857 . 21 August 1857. Gunn, Thomas Butler, 1826-1903
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