Regarding Fitz James O'Brien's habits and roots. Transcription: [Fitz James] O ?Brien ?s Decadence and Origin. he [O ?Brien] occupied a room and is now ?ǣon town ? in every sense. He looked deplorably shaky and wandered in talk, on visiting [Jesse] Haney, to-day. The Clover Hill party was to have consisted of [Charles] Gayler, its getter-up, George Arnold, O ?Brien, [Charles] Nordhoff, one of the young Harpers and Frank Wood. [] Shepherd received an invitation, but declined, anticipating that the expense would fall on one or two, and that the party would terminate in drunkenness. Young Wo
Regarding Fitz James O'Brien's habits and roots. Transcription: [Fitz James] O ?Brien ?s Decadence and Origin. he [O ?Brien] occupied a room and is now ?ǣon town ? in every sense. He looked deplorably shaky and wandered in talk, on visiting [Jesse] Haney, to-day. The Clover Hill party was to have consisted of [Charles] Gayler, its getter-up, George Arnold, O ?Brien, [Charles] Nordhoff, one of the young Harpers and Frank Wood. [] Shepherd received an invitation, but declined, anticipating that the expense would fall on one or two, and that the party would terminate in drunkenness. Young Wood, formerly a mild-spoken six-feet of vapidity, has become a good deal of a drunkard and more of an habitual swearer, his mildest exclamation being the utterance of the name of the second person in the Trinity. If O ?Brien continue his present career, he ?ll die miserably enough; nor do I suppose he ?ll ever re-cross the Atlantic. The talk about his patrician kins-folk is all Blatherskite and Erin go Brag; money has never been sent to him during his sorest need. His father is said to be a Cork lawyer, one in struggling circumstances, one Bryan, for the ?ǣFitz ? as well as the ?ǣO is assumed by his son, who first, as I recollect, called himself James Fitzjames O ?Brien, subsequently sinking the first James. It was then that he pretended to cousinship with Smith O ?Brien Title: Thomas Butler Gunn Diaries: Volume 12, page 158, April 14, 1860 . 14 April 1860. Gunn, Thomas Butler, 1826-1903
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