Describes a conversation with Thomas Paterson about Colonel Hugh Forbes, and mentions receiving a letter from Alfred Waud. Transcription: [thorough]ness, irony-headed self will and capacity for boring people must render him [Hugh Forbes] a fearful acquaintance, not to say adversary. He had borrowed or accepted alms from everybody, as far as I can learn. [Thomas] Paterson acknowledged him a nuisance. Like a sly old soldier, the Colonel said never a word of his calling here, though the Scotchman had directly asked him if he remembered me, or knew my address. Why isn't Forbes in Italy now? there
Describes a conversation with Thomas Paterson about Colonel Hugh Forbes, and mentions receiving a letter from Alfred Waud. Transcription: [thorough]ness, irony-headed self will and capacity for boring people must render him [Hugh Forbes] a fearful acquaintance, not to say adversary. He had borrowed or accepted alms from everybody, as far as I can learn. [Thomas] Paterson acknowledged him a nuisance. Like a sly old soldier, the Colonel said never a word of his calling here, though the Scotchman had directly asked him if he remembered me, or knew my address. Why isn't Forbes in Italy now? there's use for his sword there. Paterson has tried to persuade him to go, but no! like many of his class of pseudo-patriots, he distrusts and attributes all sort of bad motives to others in the same business. This same patriotism when taken up as a trade always justifies Johnson's remark about it. Andreotti was an Italian patriot, too! The curse of helping such a man as Forbes is, they never have done with needing help. Besides they waste your time horribly. [Phonography] and writing till late at night. 2. Thursday. Set to work at another editorial for the Century and blazed away at it all the morning. After dinner, Mrs [Celina] Jewell, Selena [Jewell] and her affianced one, Wall, called, the former having a letter for me from Alf Waud. He writes in better spirits than his last communication disclosed, talks inconclusively of going to Cincinatti, says he's painting pictures, details a brief sketching trip to Lake Title: Thomas Butler Gunn Diaries: Volume 11, page 7, June 1-2, 1859 . 1 June 1859. Gunn, Thomas Butler, 1826-1903
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