Regarding Frank Cahill's business doings with Mrs. Levison and his being smitten with Lizzie Woodward. Transcription: [Frank] Cahill ?s Doings. for ?ǣNic-nax. ? In the evening called on [Henry] Addey, saw him and [William] Newman, then to [Frank] Bellews ?, where I found [Frank] Cahill. Bellew wasn ?t at home, being indeed with [Jesse] Haney and others at the Metropo Waverly, drinking. Cahill and I departed together, went to Howell ?s ?ǣHouse of Lords, ? thinking we might find Bellew there. Talk over ale with two actors, one of them Burnett, stout man, now of Laura Keene ?s ? he played in th
Regarding Frank Cahill's business doings with Mrs. Levison and his being smitten with Lizzie Woodward. Transcription: [Frank] Cahill ?s Doings. for ?ǣNic-nax. ? In the evening called on [Henry] Addey, saw him and [William] Newman, then to [Frank] Bellews ?, where I found [Frank] Cahill. Bellew wasn ?t at home, being indeed with [Jesse] Haney and others at the Metropo Waverly, drinking. Cahill and I departed together, went to Howell ?s ?ǣHouse of Lords, ? thinking we might find Bellew there. Talk over ale with two actors, one of them Burnett, stout man, now of Laura Keene ?s ? he played in the ?ǣColleen Brown. ? A girl coming in with bouquets, Cahill bought one and hung it on to Miss Lizzie Woodworth [Woodward] ?s door-handle, on our return. But as Mrs. [Susan] Boley and other women, none of the youngest, were in the room and Miss Lizzie not at home, Cahill ?s gallantry wasn ?t immediately appreciated. He is, confessedly, a little smitten with the girl, and has evidently been making love to her. He is going in for a ?ǣNic-nax ? pictorial, and Mrs. L [Mary Levison], his ?ǣboss-mistress, ? as he calls her, proposes to give him a third profits. He says Haney, on his consulting him, made out it would cost more than he, Cahill, subsequently ascertained to be the case. Cahill talks of doing the three or four cent monthly in conjunction with Mrs. L. on half profits ? a safer idea than his Title: Thomas Butler Gunn Diaries: Volume 12, page 224, May 24, 1860 . 24 May 1860. Gunn, Thomas Butler, 1826-1903
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