Comments on a visit to Arthur Mason and Jane Gibson at Mrs. Kidder's, and receiving a letter from Keating. Transcription: [words crossed out]. In came another visitor who sate talking with Miss Jane Gibson, [Arthur] Mason talking to me, & I suppose not over cheerful. I rose to go, Miss detained me by some converse. Chaffed her & Mason, whereat he said ?ǣyou ?re coming it rather strong. I think! ? She accompanied her to the door, where I talked with her some ten minutes apropos of Mason ?s supposed susceptibility, to her good tempered amusement & laughter & I suppose to his especial annoyance.
Comments on a visit to Arthur Mason and Jane Gibson at Mrs. Kidder's, and receiving a letter from Keating. Transcription: [words crossed out]. In came another visitor who sate talking with Miss Jane Gibson, [Arthur] Mason talking to me, & I suppose not over cheerful. I rose to go, Miss detained me by some converse. Chaffed her & Mason, whereat he said ?ǣyou ?re coming it rather strong. I think! ? She accompanied her to the door, where I talked with her some ten minutes apropos of Mason ?s supposed susceptibility, to her good tempered amusement & laughter & I suppose to his especial annoyance. He ?s after no good with that buxom, good-humored girl. 10. Sunday. Breakfast over, crossed at the South Ferry to Brooklyn, and then at the little dock just in time to see Foley with a cargo of Frenchmen put off for the ?ǣMogudor. ? Had to wait an hour of more, then in obedience to the hoisted flag came a boatman from the island, who transported me thither. Found [William] Barth & Georgii guitar playing as is their custom of a morning. Dinner, reading, converse & dozing during the afternoon, and Creecey with us in the evening. Bed about 10 or so. 11. Monday. Over to New York in a boat, (bearing also an Irish damosel of low degree.) To [168] Duane Street, and with Mr [Henry] Hart to Millers the Lithographer. Talk and calculations as to expense of Pictorial Broadway Directory. It seemeth that a like work has been tried & foiled; the remains of which we saw at Bunfords. Very well get up too, which is disheartening. Natheless we shall make essay. Afternoon, and an hour in the morning at J B Holmes. Rather unwell & matagrabolized all day. Evening, on getting to supper found a letter from the redoubtable Keating intimating that he having heard that I had ?ǣmaligned the character of a lady, ? ?ǣdeemed it prudent to intimate he should demand immediate ?ǣsatisfaction (!) ? Wrote an [word crossed out] answer, giving him the Lie, touching him on his well-greased, indifferently-spell
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