in Gotham� sketches, and home. Ben Haun in a little lot-
tery-ticket office in Cortlandt Street. Drawing the
�sitting lady� for the Hartford one.
20. Thursday. Finished drawing, and wrote to the lady
about it � a Miss C E Beecher, of Hartford. In afternoon went
to Broadway, and saw Mr. Hart. Will inquire the expense of getting
up �Cholera� and, write, in the course of a week. Introduced to
a Bostonian Publisher. / Evening with Joe to Harsinius,
assisting him in getting his boxes therefrom as Mr. Greatbatch and
all of them quit for New York on the morrow.
21. Friday. Drawing, in a very unable-to-please-myself
sort of way this Evening. Then to New York with Joe for a ramble.
Passing down Chatham Street met Reuben, the little Jewish Schnieder,
and from him heard news of some of the Wenhamites. Hooper
still in New York. Manning the elder ditto, gentleman-izing, his
brother at Washington. Mrs. Bushel kept her resolve of deserting her
husband, � happy man he!
22. Saturday. Drawing all day. A bit of a lonely walk
in the Evening.
23. Sunday. Walk about Bergen, with Wing and Joe
in the morning, � a fine mile ramble amid the trees. Fine
view of New York from Bergen Heights. Evening to