Mentions an incident at Mrs. Paterson's boarding house (222 Washington in Brooklyn), as told by Holmes. Transcription: sarcastic, pride that apes humility breathing letter to him, intimating that as he has so judged her [Mrs. George Brown ?s] book, and as it may be of use to her, in disposing of it pecuniarily (!) she wants it back. And delivering this letter herself, she sits in the Office [of the New York Tribune] till she had the book sent down to her (!) A richer manifestation of mortified vanity was never concieved or executedI do believe! 16. Tuesday Wrote to Alf Waud. To [John B.]
Mentions an incident at Mrs. Paterson's boarding house (222 Washington in Brooklyn), as told by Holmes. Transcription: sarcastic, pride that apes humility breathing letter to him, intimating that as he has so judged her [Mrs. George Brown ?s] book, and as it may be of use to her, in disposing of it pecuniarily (!) she wants it back. And delivering this letter herself, she sits in the Office [of the New York Tribune] till she had the book sent down to her (!) A richer manifestation of mortified vanity was never concieved or executedI do believe! 16. Tuesday Wrote to Alf Waud. To [John B.] Holmes in the afternoon, where finding a scrap of invitation from Wilkins, went first to Castle Garden & then to Brooklyn and the street Wilkins stays at. Supped with him & his wife at the boardinghouse table, then passed the evening with them at their own room, fumigating and talking of schoolboy days and England, returning at about 11. 17. Wednesday. Drawing both fore and afternoon, ? sketch of the noblest act this hemisphere ever witnessed, [Christopher] Columbus landing. Evening, to [174] Mulberry Street, and out with Joe [Greatbatch], on an exploration to find [Frank] Royal ?s abode, which after divers botherations we did do, the approach being down an alley ?twixt two houses, and their being two of the same numbered houses. Royal and his wife within. Sat drinking brandy and water and conversing an hour or two, then quitted, and each to our several abodes. 18. Thursday. [William] Barth came. Out with him, to [John N.] Genins, where I find he has got some two or three hundred specimens of antique head-gear realized, from my drawings, and displayed round the store. Another job in question. / To [John B.] Holmes, where we sat conversing with J B H, he narrating how a terrific shandy occurred last night at the Patersonian establishment [222 Washington]. That the fellows there having a custom of singing nigger-songs at unseasonable hours, he put his head out of window, remon
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