Mentions Charley Brown's return to New York for a visit. Transcription: to Wells & Webb ?s &c, finally at 1 o ?clock returned to building with a pocket full of newspapers and a huge pile of wood-blocks for drawing on. Entring [Entering] Swinton & Fay ?s room [290 Broadway], to my extreme surprise there I found ? Charley Brown! He had come on from Boston, accompanying his sister [Emma Brown], and with his brother Alfred [Brown] called here. But little suffering from of old ? perchance his manner, his eloquential, egotistical flourishing a trifle exaggerated, that ?s all. He was in mighty spi
Mentions Charley Brown's return to New York for a visit. Transcription: to Wells & Webb ?s &c, finally at 1 o ?clock returned to building with a pocket full of newspapers and a huge pile of wood-blocks for drawing on. Entring [Entering] Swinton & Fay ?s room [290 Broadway], to my extreme surprise there I found ? Charley Brown! He had come on from Boston, accompanying his sister [Emma Brown], and with his brother Alfred [Brown] called here. But little suffering from of old ? perchance his manner, his eloquential, egotistical flourishing a trifle exaggerated, that ?s all. He was in mighty spirits. An hours uproarous badinage & quaint personalities, then, with him, his brother, [Alfred] Waud & [Alfred] Swinton we all went to Clems ? and dined together. He off with brother to call on [William] Roberts & elsewhere, I to my room & work. Drawing hard till 6, when Charley came, ? and a few minutes afterwards the washerwoman coming for my foul linen ? who has been owed the sum of $ by Charley ? ever since he left New York. ? (I was responsible for this rencontre, albeit Brown knew it not. [words crossed out]. Justifiable treason, I ?m sure. She ?s a poor woman, has to support a sick husband ? & Charley could pay her, & should!) He was rather humiliated, when she asked, finally promising to send it on Title: Thomas Butler Gunn Diaries: Volume 5, page 70, October 18, 1852 . 18 October 1852. Gunn, Thomas Butler, 1826-1903
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