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Extremely unwell, indigestion, calomel pill-taking, heavy of
heart and head (all produced by want of exercise.) A letter
from Wing he at Fall River. Read at cold time all the numbers
of Dickens Copperfield, leant to me by a young Irish Architect-in
training yclept Mapother here (like Borsmaison in face.) In and out
my room. On Thursday morning, through the muddy, slushy streets
to dun Butler for the $7, which I didn t get. And walking back, wet
up to the ancles, boots being horribly leaky, could well understand the
ugly feeling of poverty. Joe Greatbatch called on Saturday evening (for
a book. ) [words crossed out]
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31. Sunday. Drawing in the morning. Afternoon a pleasant, sunny
walk on the Battery.
April.
1. Monday. Mose till evening. Terre! terre! I see land!
At work on the last one now. In the evening with Mapother to
the Tabernacle. Rechabite, or te-total festival. Singing and speech
ifying. Strange is it what a very Bucephalus each man s hobby becomes
in his own eyes. Nokes makes mouse-traps for a score of years, and by
that time gets a fixed idea that it is one of the highest, gravest and
important things in existence that the Sun was pre-ordained and
created for the purpose of giving him light (while making mouse-traps.)
So is it with each mental-mousetrap-manufacture Temperance, Abo-| Page |
| Title: | Thomas Butler Gunn Diaries, Volume One: page ninety-seven |
| Description: | Mentions his work and going out with the Irish architect Dillon Mapother. |
| Date: | 1850-03-30 |
| Subject: | Boardinghouses; Books and reading; Butler, Warren; Drawing; Greatbatch, Joe; Gunn, Thomas Butler; Mapother, Dillon; Poverty; Temperance; Wing, Jabez |
| Coverage (City/State): | [New York, New York]; Fall River, [Massachusetts] |
| Scan Date: | 2011-02-07 |
| Volume |
| Title: | Thomas Butler Gunn Diaries, Volume One |
| Description: | Details Gunn's first year living in the United States, including his experiences with boarding house living in Jersey City and New York City, looking for work as an artist and a writer, publishing his first book ""Mose Among the Britishers"" and brief visits to Philadelphia and Boston. |
| Subject: | Boardinghouses; Books and reading; Drawing; Gunn, Thomas Butler; Publishers and publishing; Theater; Travel |
| Coverage (City/State): | New York, New York; Jersey City, New Jersey; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Boston, Massachusetts |
| 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-two 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. |
