Mentions letters received from friends and visiting Alfred Swinton and Frank Pounden at their homes. Transcription: Mr [Joseph] Greatbatch has been here, on his way to Illinois, there to purchase a farm. I went to the City Hall with him, there to take up his naturalisation papers. I have promised him a visit to Philadelphia. I have letters from home, Hannah [Bennett], [William] Boutcher and George Clarke. [George] Yewell is at Washington, and projects a voyage to France, in company with [Edward] Howland. [George] Arnold boards in Greene Street, is hardish up, and does what he can with pen and
Mentions letters received from friends and visiting Alfred Swinton and Frank Pounden at their homes. Transcription: Mr [Joseph] Greatbatch has been here, on his way to Illinois, there to purchase a farm. I went to the City Hall with him, there to take up his naturalisation papers. I have promised him a visit to Philadelphia. I have letters from home, Hannah [Bennett], [William] Boutcher and George Clarke. [George] Yewell is at Washington, and projects a voyage to France, in company with [Edward] Howland. [George] Arnold boards in Greene Street, is hardish up, and does what he can with pen and pencil. I have some conjunctive projects with him. W W [William Waud] and Sol Eyting have taken a room in Nassau Street, where they work diurnally. Sol and I are on speaking terms again. Visited [Alfred] Swinton at Staten Island one Sunday in company with [] Banks. He has a neat little house not far from the Vander bilt ferry, two children and a little wife. Shepherd is at New Rochelle, and sent me a bit of a letter. I have been working miscellaneously. Selling a few drawings to [Thomas W.] Strong (at mean prices); others to [William] Levison and [Jesse] Haney, for ?ǣNic nax, ? getting out a political caricature on stone &c, and some writing. Haney has abandoned his attempt at Robinson Crusoe-ing and now occupies the room opposite to mine. He is never at home, save during meal hours, and looks unhealthy and townish. I have visited [Frank] Pounden thrice, at his Brooklyn home, an out o ? the way place, up by Flat-bush Title: Thomas Butler Gunn Diaries: Volume 8, page 20, June 1-30, 1856 . 30 June 1856. Gunn, Thomas Butler, 1826-1903
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