Describes a row between Elizabeth Gouverneur and Mrs. Church. Transcription: went into [Jesse] Haney's room subsequently. [Frank] Cahill there. We sat talking till 2. By the way [Fitz James] O'Brien said a characteristic thing to me to-day. [Mortimer] Doesticks' wife [Anna Thomson] was mentioned. 'Did he get any money with her?' asked he. I have rarely met an Irishman who didn't think a man ?s marriage a failure if it didn ?t bring pecuniary profit. Very few Englishmen ? especially young Englishmen ? would have asked such a questin. 21. Saturday. Down town by 9 1/2 to post letters. Returned
Describes a row between Elizabeth Gouverneur and Mrs. Church. Transcription: went into [Jesse] Haney's room subsequently. [Frank] Cahill there. We sat talking till 2. By the way [Fitz James] O'Brien said a characteristic thing to me to-day. [Mortimer] Doesticks' wife [Anna Thomson] was mentioned. 'Did he get any money with her?' asked he. I have rarely met an Irishman who didn't think a man ?s marriage a failure if it didn ?t bring pecuniary profit. Very few Englishmen ? especially young Englishmen ? would have asked such a questin. 21. Saturday. Down town by 9 1/2 to post letters. Returned to drawing. To Pic Office in the afternoon. Thomson, [Charles E.] Wilbour and O'Brien there. Drawing and writing at night. Jolly row to-day, after dinner, between Mrs [Elizabeth] Gouverneur and Mrs ? she has, of course, dropped the name of Andreotti ? Church. I heard all about it this evening, Mrs C narrating. Mrs Gouverneur with her two children [May and Adolphus Gouverneur] (Rawson is quartered off at an inferior boarding house in Bleecker street ? makes his mother look older than she likes, I trow! ?) at a tip-top establishment near to the Fifth Avenue, where she pays something like $40 for fourth story accommodation, in order to be in a 'gang,' fashionable house. Mrs Church called on her and met a certain Colonel or Mr Fuller, a married man whom the widow had scraped acquaintance with at Saratoga; and this married man was talking in the most fulsome manner to Mrs G; she doing the exuberant, the gushing, the jolly as usual ? and, of course overdoing it. The Fuller went into a description of his introduction at the Springs, upon which Mrs G exclaimed, in that pleasant-toned voice of hers ? she has a sweet voice ? 'It was one of the happiest evenings I ever passed!' Whereupon the Fuller put out his hand, she did the like, and they did a reciprocal squeeze. Now Mrs G, dropping in to-day ? after dinner, as usual on one Title: Thomas Butler Gunn Diaries: Volume 9, page 3
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