Mentions visiting the Ornithorhyncus Club with Frank Pounden. Transcription: his [William Levison ?s] flaws, but is not so bad. 5. Tuesday. Battery walk with young Roslyn [Rawson] Gill, a boy, staying at this boarding house. He has lived in California and Central America, and looks forward to visit the latter again in the forthcoming month. His mother [Elizabeth Gouverneur] is a handsomish, coquettish Englishwoman, who has been twice wed, and is again a widow. She don ?t board here. Divers calls, then back to writing, and thus till late at night. Wrote to [Joseph] Greatbatch 6. Wednesday. To
Mentions visiting the Ornithorhyncus Club with Frank Pounden. Transcription: his [William Levison ?s] flaws, but is not so bad. 5. Tuesday. Battery walk with young Roslyn [Rawson] Gill, a boy, staying at this boarding house. He has lived in California and Central America, and looks forward to visit the latter again in the forthcoming month. His mother [Elizabeth Gouverneur] is a handsomish, coquettish Englishwoman, who has been twice wed, and is again a widow. She don ?t board here. Divers calls, then back to writing, and thus till late at night. Wrote to [Joseph] Greatbatch 6. Wednesday. To the Post Office. Writing the rest of the time. A letter from home, ? from my mother [Naomi Butler Gunn] and Rosa [Gunn], ? Illish and despondent. 7. Thursday. Snow falling fast. Wrote letters to [William] Barth and Dillon [Mapother]. At 8 or so, to the Waverly house. With [James] Parton in his room, his wife [Fanny Fern] being en dishabille and invisible. At his request I read over the Mammoth Cave article, which he praised and rejected ? as on a used-up subject. 8. Friday. Down town, to the Post-Office, and returned, to write. Letters to Barth, Dillon &c 9. Saturday. Writing. In the evening to the ?ǣOrnithorincus ? taking with me one [Frank] Pounden, a short, shrewdish, opinionated, Irish born, German educated, young, down-town clerk, boarding here. It was nearly 10 when we arrived. The Arnolds [George and Jack], [George] Yewel, [Charles] Gaylor, and [Frank] Bellew, and some four or five others had assembled, but not [] Banks. He came in presently, and anon others. Sol Eytinge & [Jesse] Haney, [Fitz James] O ?Brien Title: Thomas Butler Gunn Diaries: Volume 7, page 202, February 4-9, 1856 . 4 February 1856. Gunn, Thomas Butler, 1826-1903
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