[account fragment and letter]
[handwritten]
1857
Dec 31 By no copies bound
2.028
on hand 351
given away 120 471
sold 1,557
[printed]
PRINTING OFFICE, NO. 15 VANDEWATER STREET.
New York Jan 1st 1858
[handwritten]
I hereby certify that from
the 1st 1857 to date I have
had the uninterrupted pos-
session of the Stereo Plates of
the Book called Physiology
of New York Boarding Houses
and that during that time I
have printed from them 2000
copies, and no more.
C. A. Alvord
| Page |
| Title: | Thomas Butler Gunn Diaries, Volume Nine: page fifty-nine |
| Description: | Enclosed letter gives an account of the existing copies of Gunn's ''Physiology of New York Boarding Houses'' that have been sold and printed to date. |
| Date: | 1858-01-01 |
| Subject: | Alvord, C.A.; Gunn, Thomas Butler; Publishers and publishing |
| Coverage (City/State): | New York, [New York] |
| Coverage (Street): | No. 15 Vandewater Street |
| Scan Date: | 2011-02-02 |
| Volume |
| Title: | Thomas Butler Gunn Diaries, Volume Nine |
| Description: | Includes descriptions of boardinghouse living, a picnic at Hoboken with other New York artists and journalists, his drawing and writing work in New York, attending a lecture by Lola Montez, visits to James Parton and Fanny Fern and the Edwards family, a controversy over Fitz James O'Brien's story ''The Diamond Lens,'' artist Sol Eytinge's relationship with writer Allie Vernon, the suicide of writer Henry William Herbert, antics of the New York Bohemians, the interest of people living in his boarding house in spiritualism, a visit to his friend George Bolton's farm in Canada, a visit to Niagara Falls, and a scandal involving Harbormaster Willis Patten, who lives in his boarding house. |
| Subject: | Boardinghouses; Bohemians; Farms; Gunn, Thomas Butler; Publishers and publishing; Suicide; Travel; Women |
| Coverage (City/State): | New York, New York; Rochester, New York; Elmira, New York; Paris, Ontario, Canada |
| Note: | Thomas Butler Gunn was born February 15, 1826, in Banbury, England, and came to New York in 1849. During the Civil War he worked as a correspondent for the New York Tribune and the New York Evening Post. He returned to England in 1863, and died in Birmingham in April 1903. The collection includes twenty-one volumes of his diaries, including newspaper clippings, letters, photographs, sketches, and various other items inserted by Gunn. Diary entries date from July 7, 1849, to April 7, 1863, and include his experiences with the New York publishing and literary world, his descriptions of boarding houses, his travels throughout the United States, and his experiences traveling with the Federal army as a Civil War correspondent. |
| Publisher: | Missouri History Museum |
| Rights: | Copyright 2011 Missouri History Museum. |
| Source: | Page images, transcriptions, and metadata of the Thomas Butler Gunn diaries have been provided by the Missouri History Museum. |
