Mentions taking a walk with ex-engraver John Watson. Transcription: rollicking, friendly, unenvious existences conceivable! Not a word of the dreary dissipation, the getting in debt, the bad blood, spites, bickerings and general raffishness of it! Bah! Dropped in at Edwards ? for ten minutes, then home. [Jesse] Haney & Co rehearsing ?ǣBarbazure ? at Mort Thomson ?s house, he still out west. 16. Friday. Down town all the morning, work-hunting &c, sans luck. Drawing. 17. Saturday. A wet miserable ay. Only out in the afternoon. Frank Pounden up. He out of a situation. 18. Sunday. In doors till e
Mentions taking a walk with ex-engraver John Watson. Transcription: rollicking, friendly, unenvious existences conceivable! Not a word of the dreary dissipation, the getting in debt, the bad blood, spites, bickerings and general raffishness of it! Bah! Dropped in at Edwards ? for ten minutes, then home. [Jesse] Haney & Co rehearsing ?ǣBarbazure ? at Mort Thomson ?s house, he still out west. 16. Friday. Down town all the morning, work-hunting &c, sans luck. Drawing. 17. Saturday. A wet miserable ay. Only out in the afternoon. Frank Pounden up. He out of a situation. 18. Sunday. In doors till evening; to [] Chapin ?s, then to Edwards ?, with young [Charles] Honeywell whom I met on leaving the church. Haney, [Thoms] Nast, [Carl] Knudsen and one of the Pillows, ([James] Parton ?s brothers in law or half-brothers) there. Talking with the girls [Sally, Matty, and Eliza Edwards], Haney mostly to Matty. [James] Morris came anon. With him to Haney ?s, on leaving, I wanting to get a book. 19. Monday. Work. Down town in the afternoon and returning was accosted by and walked some blocks with [John] Watson ? Watson the long, lank vulturous ex-forger, ex-engraver, ex-dealer in jewelry and ?ǣconfidence ?-operator, ex-convict and present story-writer &c for Harpers Mag and Weekly. He more than hinted that his ex-mistress, now Title: Thomas Butler Gunn Diaries: Volume 11, page 178, December 15-19, 1859 . 15 December 1859. Gunn, Thomas Butler, 1826-1903
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