Regarding Douglas Jerrold, who has moved to New York from Canada. Transcription: on return, pretty successfully. 22. Tuesday. Tried to draw without a walk, got nervous and made a failure. Down town with yesterday ?s drawing to [Thomas W.] Strongs. Back to dinner. Writing, hard. Boarding House Physiology. 23. Wednesday. To Young Sam Office. [Thomas Powell] Powell, Abbott and Rosenburg there. Out with them. Called in at Florence ?s and saw [Joseph] Scoville. Was introduced to his wife [Carolina Scoville], a tall, dark haired young woman, (and child.) He talking of paper projects for an hour or
Regarding Douglas Jerrold, who has moved to New York from Canada. Transcription: on return, pretty successfully. 22. Tuesday. Tried to draw without a walk, got nervous and made a failure. Down town with yesterday ?s drawing to [Thomas W.] Strongs. Back to dinner. Writing, hard. Boarding House Physiology. 23. Wednesday. To Young Sam Office. [Thomas Powell] Powell, Abbott and Rosenburg there. Out with them. Called in at Florence ?s and saw [Joseph] Scoville. Was introduced to his wife [Carolina Scoville], a tall, dark haired young woman, (and child.) He talking of paper projects for an hour or more. Back and to writing. Have done five Chapters of Boarding-House Physiology. 24. Thursday. Down town for a walk to Fowler and Wells, back to writing and so on till late at night. Had a letter from [Edward] Heylyn. (Doing nothing.) 25. Friday. Down town. Fowler &c, ?ǣYoung Sam ?s ? Post Office, Strongs and [Joseph] Greatbatchs papers &c. Return to writing. Evening to hear [] Chapin ?s lecture on ?ǣPractical Life ? at his Church, with [William] Levison. I find I ?ve only put down the dirty side of the man ?s nature, after all. He has been doing a good action. There ?s one, Douglas Jerrold, son to the writer [Douglas William Jerrold] in ?ǣPunch, ? who has been of late in New York, having come hither from Canada, where he had a comissirat office, which he threw up, anticipating he might be sent to the Crimea. I suppose he expected to get a living by literature, partly on the reputation of ?ǣthe governer ?s ? reputation. Levison Title: Thomas Butler Gunn Diaries: Volume 7, page 198, January 21-25, 1856 . 21 January 1856. Gunn, Thomas Butler, 1826-1903
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