Describes a talk with William Leslie about each of them being unhappy. Transcription: near to becoming a mother. The girl [Anna Thomson] was married too young. 19. Sunday. Stayed till after dinner. Mrs P. [Fanny Fern] didn ?t appear, being indisposed. Grace [Eldredge] showed me a daguerreotype of herself in male costume which she intended to give Nelly [Eldredge] on her birthday ? to morrow. She looked very pretty, in a Scotch cap. To [Frank] Pounden ?s. There till 6 1/2, then to New York and [] Chapin ?s Church. 20. Monday. Writing and letters to Mary Anne [Greatbatch], George Bolt
Describes a talk with William Leslie about each of them being unhappy. Transcription: near to becoming a mother. The girl [Anna Thomson] was married too young. 19. Sunday. Stayed till after dinner. Mrs P. [Fanny Fern] didn ?t appear, being indisposed. Grace [Eldredge] showed me a daguerreotype of herself in male costume which she intended to give Nelly [Eldredge] on her birthday ? to morrow. She looked very pretty, in a Scotch cap. To [Frank] Pounden ?s. There till 6 1/2, then to New York and [] Chapin ?s Church. 20. Monday. Writing and letters to Mary Anne [Greatbatch], George Bolton and [Edward] Heylyn ? the latter for intelligence of Rochester steam-boats, chancing his being extant and there. Out in the afternoon. Writing at evening. 21. Tuesday. To Harper ?s. Story rejected. Writing in the evening. I ?d been just a trifle matagrabolized by the morning ?s disappointment, was getting philosophic about it, when going into [William] Leslie ?s room, he happened to do a little despondency, saying he wasn ?t happy. Now compared to him, pecuniarily, I ?m an exceedingly poor devil ? it struck me very funnily to think that here was he with his thousands, enough to gratify every moderate want and over, meeting me on the same blue-devil platforms ? my trouble being that I had not got a poor $30 or so for story. A jolly good laugh cleared the air, and I did a good evening ?s work afterwards. 22. Wednesday. To Factorville, Staten Island, with intent to see [Wardle] Corbyn. He out fishing, so had to return. A sunny, windy, autumn day. Writing. A whiskey-tod towards midnight with [William] Leslie, [Bob] Gun, Kendal and Mac Ewen in the formers room, where they were Title: Thomas Butler Gunn Diaries: Volume 9, page 207, September 18-22, 1858 . 18 September 1858. Gunn, Thomas Butler, 1826-1903
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