Describes his first day at his new boardinghouse in Duane Park. Transcription: scouring, all the morning. Finding carman, half hour ?s stoll by the water. Then after dinner, carman arriving, box lifting, ? ferry crossing, farewell to longer abiding in Jersey. Arrived at Duane 168. Coffin in the hall ? poor German boarder whom the ?ǣwhips and scorns of ? poverty had tempted to ?ǣburst ope the gates which all would willingly slink by ? ? he had taken laudanum yesterday. Life and Death jostle each other by the elbows. / A quarter of an hour spent in porter ?s work, dragging horrid heavy boxes
Describes his first day at his new boardinghouse in Duane Park. Transcription: scouring, all the morning. Finding carman, half hour ?s stoll by the water. Then after dinner, carman arriving, box lifting, ? ferry crossing, farewell to longer abiding in Jersey. Arrived at Duane 168. Coffin in the hall ? poor German boarder whom the ?ǣwhips and scorns of ? poverty had tempted to ?ǣburst ope the gates which all would willingly slink by ? ? he had taken laudanum yesterday. Life and Death jostle each other by the elbows. / A quarter of an hour spent in porter ?s work, dragging horrid heavy boxes up; ? then ?ǣfixing ? room, stove &c. Room 12 feet by 6, just able to open door for bed. Lavation, repiration, cogitation till about 6; ? then decent [descent] into sitting and spitting room. Hot stove, boarders besieging it and uttering newspaper topics. Bell rings ? all troops to long room in the rear. Long tables, stools, stove again. Supped. Back to sitting room ? talk with old gentleman about [Ralph Waldo] Emerson; then strolled to Christopher Street. Joe [Greatbatch] daily expected ?ǣback again. ? An hour ?s talk, then back to Duane. Little complimentary badinage with the good tempered Irish girl who shewed me to my room; then to bed in New York for the first time. 27. Sunday. Up, and down early. Breakfast; then buying ?ǣAtlas ? of newsboy at door, sat and read awhile. Critique on Emerson, and a fine one in ?ǣTribune. ? A walk down Duane and up Bowery. Got ?ǣPolice Gazette ? and there read fine expose of Hawkins ? hope, if true, that the fellow will get Blackwell incarceration for a twelvemonth, ? and so an end ? who can touch pitch without being Title: Thomas Butler Gunn Diaries: Volume 1, page 79, January 26-27, 1850 . 26 January 1850. Gunn, Thomas Butler, 1826-1903
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