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745, Emigration Project.
box etc. By 9 � to 745. The girls and
their parents here. Haney and Jack away
at Pougkeepsie
28. Sunday. Is put down erroneously
to the credit of Saturday. On the latter day
Mr Edwards
called on me
about procuring
my aid for
a colonization
scheme in get-
ting South
Carolinian
negroes to emi-
grate to Aus-
tralia, to
cultivate cot-
ton, and set-
tle there. I
proposed to
put him into
[photograph]
Miss Lizzie Woodward.
[Gunn�s diary continued]
communication
with Prince
Rivers, an in-
fluential man
among the ex-
slaves of Hil-
ton Head.
Writing to
Hannah and
scoring up
Diary until
pretty late
at night.
I have cut
Cahill and
company al-
most totally, only speaking a little to Shepherd.
29. Monday. Down town in the afternoon.
To Tribune office, saw Gay. To Haney�s. He
has met Edge and scolded him about the bor-
rowed $17. To the Evening Post office. In
the evening went to 9th Street and called on Liz-