Describes a letter received from Alfred Waud. Transcription: [Jesse] Haney's room playing chess. His [Frank Pounden's] father was there too, and both father and son were a little affected by liquor. After dinner Haney went off to [James] Parton ?s, I accompanying the Poundens ? all the family ? to the house of a friend, where I stayed till 7, then leaving them for Parton's. Found Haneys, [Edward] Wells and Ulric, the little German teacher, there. Parton away, visiting his mother in Jersey. The evening passed in reading aloud [Charles] Dicken's Christmas Story 'The Perils of Certain English
Describes a letter received from Alfred Waud. Transcription: [Jesse] Haney's room playing chess. His [Frank Pounden's] father was there too, and both father and son were a little affected by liquor. After dinner Haney went off to [James] Parton ?s, I accompanying the Poundens ? all the family ? to the house of a friend, where I stayed till 7, then leaving them for Parton's. Found Haneys, [Edward] Wells and Ulric, the little German teacher, there. Parton away, visiting his mother in Jersey. The evening passed in reading aloud [Charles] Dicken's Christmas Story 'The Perils of Certain English Prisoners &c,' Haney and I taking turns at it. Stayed all night. 11. Monday. 'Fanny [Fern]' telling capital stories over the breakfast table, which she ought to write out under the title of 'School-days of an Incorigible girl.' A wet walk to New York. In doors all the rest of the day. 12. Tuesday. Met [Frank] Bellew in Broadway. With him behind the scenes and on the stage at Niblo's. Writing, with labor the rest of the day. Incidentally talking with [Frank] Cahill, I've found out that [George] Arnold knows Lizzie Petit ? has made love to her. He telegraphed admiration to her window by fingers alphabet, she met him in Union Square &c. Just the fast young lady I supposed. He ? Arnold ? had told Cahill the circumstances, suppressing the surname. 13. Wednesday. In doors till the afternoon, when I went to Greene St to deliver a letter received from Alf Waud enclosed in one to myself. He writes thus of [John] Watson, the long, lank, vulturous engraver, now in Boston. 'He (Watson) boasts that if Allie [Vernon] knew he had money, and he was to try it on, she would leave Sol [Eytinge] immediately for him. He gives her credit for mercenary feeling &c swears that she threw herself in his way, that he Title: Thomas Butler Gunn Diaries: Volume 9, page 54, January 10-13, 1858 . 10 January 1858. Gunn, Thomas Butler, 1826-1903
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