File:Thomas Butler Gunn Diaries- Volume 10, page 184, April 15, 1859.jpg

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Joined by [John] Mc Lenan. The gout has kept him abed for six weeks or more, up among, the Cattskills. He talked of it. Thad Glover came in — very drunk. Left them, and uptown-wards. Went to 12th street after tea, found that [Henry] Hitchings had started for his western journey at 6 this afternoon. Good fortune go with him — I'm sorry to lose the fellow. To Edwards, talking with two of the girls [Eliza and Matty Edwards] till [Jesse] Haney came in with Sally [Edwards], from the Academy picture exhibition. Stayed till 11. On my way to [Oliver] Hillards, I looked in and saw Selina Jewell, or rather Mrs Maltravers. Both of which names she is about to merge into a third, that of Wall, in June. I met her walking in Broadway with its owner some days ago. A short, homely-looking, smug young man! she knew him before her marriage. They have got Mrs [Cornelia] Sexton and the baby in the house, now. Nothing from Boston. Mrs [Catharine] Potter house-hunting, day by day, some of the women doing the like. There will be a general scattering of folks at the end of this month. Pleasant little Mrs Eldredge, husband and family think of taking apartments: Mrs Patten the like. Her boy George is here, improved in manners. Plenty of young ones in the house. The King children are not anyway as good as they look; the Eldest shut his mother in a closet and tells her she's a d____d fool. A boy of perhaps 8 — and like most Jewish children, handsome. Which mother is silly woman who utters extreme inanity when she does