Mentions attending an Amusement and Intellectual-Marriage-Accelerating Society meeting organized by Alfred Brown, including both men and women. Transcription: withal, to whom I talked great part of the time. She didn ?t say aught very clever of or original, but was certainly the pleasantest object in the room. The Forfeits were a great success, I inventing divers ones for the nonce. Much of romping and kissing and general satisfaction. Reached my room about 1. 11. Friday. Down town & drawing &c. Naught of import. 12. Saturday. Down town, [Cornelius] Mathews, Reveille Office [Thomas W.] Strong
Mentions attending an Amusement and Intellectual-Marriage-Accelerating Society meeting organized by Alfred Brown, including both men and women. Transcription: withal, to whom I talked great part of the time. She didn ?t say aught very clever of or original, but was certainly the pleasantest object in the room. The Forfeits were a great success, I inventing divers ones for the nonce. Much of romping and kissing and general satisfaction. Reached my room about 1. 11. Friday. Down town & drawing &c. Naught of import. 12. Saturday. Down town, [Cornelius] Mathews, Reveille Office [Thomas W.] Strong ?s, getting $ for blocks. Picayune Office, Lantern &c; ? to room again. Down town again in afternoon, paid for Picayune work. Evening [Charles] Weldon coming for me took me home with him, where we supped and then had book talk till nigh upon 1, when I left bearing with me [Thomas] Carlyle ?s life of Sterling, Saint Augustine ?s Confessions, and Welden ?s ?ǣParhelion ? in the rough. 13. Sunday. In the afternoon comes [Joseph H.] Brightly & [Charles] Brown, & [Alfred] Waud. To the Battery, noting the the sea & the sky and leaping about mid the snow. Supped at a place in Dey Street, then together to hear [] Chapin. Sherry at St Charles afterwards. 14. Monday. Drawing; Johns called. Down town. Evening indoors, Waud writing, I also. Title: Thomas Butler Gunn Diaries: Volume 5, page 156, February 10-14, 1853 . 10 February 1853. Gunn, Thomas Butler, 1826-1903
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