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My Story reprinted in the Times.
just published number, wanting copy and
requesting me not to confine myself to my stipu-
lated $9 worth. To Crook and Duffs. Met
George Arnold there, as yesterday, when I found
him in company with long Frank Wood, who
has coarsened considerably in exterior as morally,
and William Winter, poetaster to the Satur-
day Press, to whom I was introduced, and
who seemed to know me. Arnold spake of
the Phalanx and of the recent death of Warren s
wife, in or after child-birth. Banks was ad-
jacent, talking to Gayler the redfaced. This
yesterday. Today O Brien was with Arnold;
and, within the restaurant, Cahill addressed
me, presently sitting down to sherry-cobblers
I got beside Wood who seemed shy and sulky,
probably at the contrast presented by Vanity
Fair with Momus, for both publications were
there. O Brien loitered in again, but as usual
we cut one another mutually. Welden came,
addressed me and Cahill, and I went off
with him to Lovejoy s, where he had an appoint-
ment with a Times man, who told me my
All the Year Round Story had been reprinted
in the weekly edition of that paper. Seymour
is in Europe Germany. Up town in sunny
Broadway, passed pretty Matty and her father.| Page |
| Title: | Thomas Butler Gunn Diaries, Volume Twelve: page two hundred and thirty-six |
| Description: | Mentions that his story in ''All the Year Round'' has been reprinted in ''The New York Times.'' |
| Date: | 1860-05-31 |
| Subject: | Arnold, George; Banks, A.F.; Cahill, Frank; Edwards, George; Edwards, Martha; Gayler, Charles; Gunn, Thomas Butler; New York times.; O'Brien, Fitz James; Seymour, Charles (Bailey); Welden, Charles; Winter, William; Wood, Frank |
| Coverage (City/State): | [New York, New York] |
| Coverage (Street): | Broadway |
| 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. |
