Describes the boarders at his boarding house. Transcription: used as a dining room. Miss C. [Clark] is conversable enough; rather passee in point of years, impresses one not disagreably, talks the Yankee dialect, as do all the boarders, especially Le Blond, whose atrocious pronunciation is, as Fanny Fern would say 'crucifying.' (Gon for going a special abomination.) A Mr Griswold, a recent accession, chums I find with Johnson and Phillips ? name of the English born boarder. These at present comprise the inhabitants of 132 Bleecker, who'll probably develop more extensively hereafter. 10. Sund
Describes the boarders at his boarding house. Transcription: used as a dining room. Miss C. [Clark] is conversable enough; rather passee in point of years, impresses one not disagreably, talks the Yankee dialect, as do all the boarders, especially Le Blond, whose atrocious pronunciation is, as Fanny Fern would say 'crucifying.' (Gon for going a special abomination.) A Mr Griswold, a recent accession, chums I find with Johnson and Phillips ? name of the English born boarder. These at present comprise the inhabitants of 132 Bleecker, who'll probably develop more extensively hereafter. 10. Sunday. Writing, chores &c. [Jesse] Haney came by 11 and stayed all day, dining & supping with me; he having slightly lamed himself by a bathe during the pic-nic day, we didn't turn out till evening when, we strolled in and about the Square. Got to comparing notes with him touching our holiday, and found it was to him as melancholy as to myself, if not bitterer. He, as I, had hoped for rainy preventation. The girls [Eliza, Matty, and Sally Edwards] showed themselves children no longer so markedly that we can't regard them on the old, delightful fasting. They rather threw us over too, Haney, [Edward] Wells and myself, for the juniors. Natural enough of course, and right, still none the Title: Thomas Butler Gunn Diaries: Volume 11, page 49, July 9-10, 1859 . 9 July 1859. Gunn, Thomas Butler, 1826-1903
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