Comments on packing and drinking with Hugh Muir and Bill Collinson in honor of his last night in his boarding house in Jersey City. Transcription: aperient to superfluous braggadocio. English nationality is internal till provoked by bombast. Evening drawing. Hughie [Muir] violinizing; ? he ?s a kindly-hearted fellow; ? with less than the average of the all-potent devil Self in his composition. 24. Thursday. All the weary day packing, books, drawings, clothes and other of civilization ?s nuisances. Sitting matagrabolized and melancholic in the evening, ? sore throat and motley-hued musings
Comments on packing and drinking with Hugh Muir and Bill Collinson in honor of his last night in his boarding house in Jersey City. Transcription: aperient to superfluous braggadocio. English nationality is internal till provoked by bombast. Evening drawing. Hughie [Muir] violinizing; ? he ?s a kindly-hearted fellow; ? with less than the average of the all-potent devil Self in his composition. 24. Thursday. All the weary day packing, books, drawings, clothes and other of civilization ?s nuisances. Sitting matagrabolized and melancholic in the evening, ? sore throat and motley-hued musings of Past and Present ? not [Thomas] Carlyle ?s but mine own. Mine own ? mine own ? mine own ? Oh my God, Mary [Bilton] ? hope is rotting piecemeal. Accursed, deathly horrible word Never ? I half think I know its meaning. 25. Friday. Leaden headed, lazy fingered drawing. ?ǣMose [among the Britishers]. ? More talk of steam rivalry. A somber-thoughted walk about Jersey in the rear of the afternoon. Evening, jug of cyder-brandy punch, vocalizing with Hughie and [Bill] Collinson, in honor of my departure on the morrow. ?ǣIf a man should be drunk to night And dead in his grave to morrow ? Will you, or any man say That he died of care and sorrow! Then hang up all sorrow and care Says old Sir Simon the King! ? [?ǣTo Holts ? written in the lower right corner of the page] 26. Saturday. Stove pipe moving, grate-unfixing, table Title: Thomas Butler Gunn Diaries: Volume 1, page 78, January 23-26, 1850 . 23 January 1850. Gunn, Thomas Butler, 1826-1903
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