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and Album.
and poetastically-orthodox. Rhymes by Jule
and t other girl. Rhymes and blank very
blank verse by enamored initials. A
letter from a New York manager in answer to
an application for an engagement (by Granville)
so entitled by the indignantly dramatic Lotty.
Twas written by C.D. Stuart, alias O Flaher-
ty. A confused, scrawled intimation of Sir
My company is made up. Reminded me of
the Rich note to Hogarth s poor author. Old cari-
catures of Quae Genus and Dr. Syntax, barba-
rous Rowlandson or Gillray illustrations to the
Vicar of Wakefield. Portrait of Granville s
mother, a handsome Englishwoman, and sis-
ter. Book-of-beauty heads. Engravings and
things a good deal mauled by children. That
was Lotty s Album. The girls went out
to the woods, I believe; Lott and I sat talking,
she occasionally making characteristic, impulsive
not particularly necessary raids into this or that
room adjoining. She told me an immense
deal about herself, both on this occasion
and subsequently: I shall lump it together,
without comment or question; it were impossi-
be to achieve anything like the whole truth,
one must make the best of fragments. She
lived awhile so I understood with Mrs
| Page |
| Title: | Thomas Butler Gunn Diaries, Volume Twelve: page one hundred and seventy-three |
| Description: | Describes a visit to Lotty at Fordham. |
| Date: | 1860-04-27 |
| Subject: | Granville, Arthur (Alleyne); Granville, Mrs.; Gunn, Thomas Butler; Kidder, Charlotte (Whytal, Granville); Martin, Julia; Stuart, C.D.; Women |
| Coverage (City/State): | [Fordham, New York] |
| Scan Date: | 2011-01-29 |
| Volume |
| Title: | Thomas Butler Gunn Diaries, Volume Twelve |
| Description: | Includes descriptions of boarding house living, his freelance writing and drawing work, antics of the New York literary Bohemians, visits to the Edwards family, the activities of London detective Arthur Ledger who is staying in his boarding house, Thomas Nast's courtship of Sally Edwards, two masked balls at his boarding house, a visit to Lotty Granville at Fordham, the state of Charles Damoreau's marriage, and a visit to the ''Phalanx'' in New Jersey with George Boweryem. |
| Subject: | Boardinghouses; Bohemians; Detectives; Gunn, Thomas Butler; Journalism; Marriage; Publishers and publishing; Travel; Women |
| Coverage (City/State): | New York, New York; Fordham, New York; New Jersey |
| 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. |
