Mentions visiting James Parton and Fanny Fern and reading to them chapters of his draft of The Physiology of New York Boarding Houses. Transcription: turned as not wanted. Eheu! is it because not good enough or because I have done a drawing or so for +?-?-?Young Sam+?-?-? his rival. Met Moore, (+?-?-?Times+?-?-? man and friend of [Charles] Welden), took him to the +?-?-?Ornithorincus.+?-?-? Writing till 8. Looked in at [James] Parton+?-?-?s new quarters the Waverly House, lower down on Broadway. To the Ornithorincus. [] Banks, Wurzbach, the Arnolds [George and Jack], [George] Yewel and ot
Mentions visiting James Parton and Fanny Fern and reading to them chapters of his draft of The Physiology of New York Boarding Houses. Transcription: turned as not wanted. Eheu! is it because not good enough or because I have done a drawing or so for +?-?-?Young Sam+?-?-? his rival. Met Moore, (+?-?-?Times+?-?-? man and friend of [Charles] Welden), took him to the +?-?-?Ornithorincus.+?-?-? Writing till 8. Looked in at [James] Parton+?-?-?s new quarters the Waverly House, lower down on Broadway. To the Ornithorincus. [] Banks, Wurzbach, the Arnolds [George and Jack], [George] Yewel and others there. Singing and bacchanilization. ([Frank] Bellew off to Boston, after the [Douglas] Jerrold escapade.) [Jesse] Haney and Sol Eytinge came for awhile. De Waldron [Thomas de Walden] and others. [Fitz James] O+?-?-?Brien too, who sang parts of a parody on the Fra Diavolo our +?-?-?See on yonder rock reclining+?-?-? ? touching the Ornithorincus. Stayed till 1 1/2. 27. Sunday. Went in the evening to the Waverly House, and read Chapters of +?-?-?Boarding house Physiology+?-?-? to Parton and his wife [Fanny Fern]. He criticized and she praised ? the latter good-natured, the former of value. Out o+?-?-?doors the snow fell fast. I went back to my room lonely, sad and strange. 28. Monday. Writing up notes for compilation book after a walk. Ill. [29. Tuesday through 31. Thursday] Walks. Writing (wearily.) One evening at Partons. +?-?-?Young Sam.+?-?-? Ill, tic-dolorean pain in teeth and jaws, continuous head-aches, and diarrhea. Most miserable and lonely. Only one glimpse of hope. [Henry] Fowler told me on paying the $20 for Paris letters, that they would take other Title: Thomas Butler Gunn Diaries: Volume 7, page 200, January 26-31, 1856 . 26 January 1856. Gunn, Thomas Butler, 1826-1903
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