Mentions meeting a California man and listening to his tales. Transcription: ___ &c. I believe it ?s true for my part. A woman who believes not in God, is monstrously vain, full of hates & vanities & infinitesimal spites would [word crossed out] be a strumpet. Writing, drawing &c all day. Don ?t recollect detail. 7. Tuesday. Reveille & Lantern Office. Drawing Reveille work all the afternoon. 8. Wednesday. Finished Reveille work by 1. Dined at the ?ǣLive & Let live, ? to Randalls with blocks, then to Reveille, & Lantern Offices. Got no money from the latter. They owe me $39. Met [John] Mc Lena
Mentions meeting a California man and listening to his tales. Transcription: ___ &c. I believe it ?s true for my part. A woman who believes not in God, is monstrously vain, full of hates & vanities & infinitesimal spites would [word crossed out] be a strumpet. Writing, drawing &c all day. Don ?t recollect detail. 7. Tuesday. Reveille & Lantern Office. Drawing Reveille work all the afternoon. 8. Wednesday. Finished Reveille work by 1. Dined at the ?ǣLive & Let live, ? to Randalls with blocks, then to Reveille, & Lantern Offices. Got no money from the latter. They owe me $39. Met [John] Mc Lenan. [words crossed out] Out with [Thomas] Powell, no go. Return to room. Joe [Greatbatch] called in the evening. With him to [174] Mulberry Street, & then together to [Henry] Holt ?s boarding house in Robinson Street, calling for [William] Martin & a certain Californian, all four then proceeding to Broadway where Joe purchased a Colt ?s Revolver, five barrel, paying for it & ?ǣfixings ? $20,50. Martin leaving us, we turned in the Shades, sat conversing for an hour or so, then the Californian left ? a good humored, brown faced Western man was he, ? had gone the Overland Route, from the Mormon City [Salt Lake City], & had much to tell of digging & washing, of chasing and slaying Indians ? having first made his way to California in 1848. Parting with Joe at 10, I looked in at Beach Street for an hour, then to room & bed. 9. Thursday. Doing Lockingtonian subjects all the morning. Title: Thomas Butler Gunn Diaries: Volume 5, page 36, September 6-9, 1852 . 6 September 1852. Gunn, Thomas Butler, 1826-1903
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