[loose note]
745 Broadway
Thursday evening
Mr Gunn
Dear Sir
Would you be so kind as
to favor us with your company To-morrow
evening upon which occasion, we Shall
celebrate the birthdays, of several members
of the family. We forgot to tell Mr Maurice
to ask you which I am sure was quite
an oversight, but you will excuse it.
Yours truly
Mattie Edwards.
| Page |
| Title: | Thomas Butler Gunn Diaries, Volume Eighteen: page two hundred and fifty-four |
| Description: | Note written by Mattie Edwards inviting Gunn to a birthday party. |
| Subject: | Birthdays; Edwards, Martha; Gunn, Thomas Butler; Morris, James (K. N. Pepper) |
| Coverage (City/State): | [New York, New York] |
| Coverage (Street): | 745 Broadway |
| Scan Date: | 2010-06-14 |
| Volume |
| Title: | Thomas Butler Gunn Diaries, Volume Eighteen |
| Description: | Includes Gunn's descriptions of the scene in New York at the commencement of the Civil War, his visits to military camps in and around New York City as a reporter for ""The New York Evening Post,"" boarding house life, the shooting of Sergeant Davenport by Captain Fitz James O'Brien for insubordination, and Frank Bellew's marital troubles. |
| Subject: | Boardinghouses; Bohemians; Civil War; Gunn, Thomas Butler; Journalism; Marriage; Military; Publishers and publishing; Women |
| Coverage (City/State): | New York, New York |
| 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 2010 Missouri History Museum. |
| Source: | Page images, transcriptions, and metadata of the Thomas Butler Gunn diaries have been provided by the Missouri History Museum. |
