Describes a story told by Rosenberg about how Fitz James O'Brien didn't pay his rent at his boarding house. Transcription: [sub]ject, I put down Rosenberg's account of O ?B [Fitz James O ?Brien]'s characteristic Diddlerism at a boarding house, in this city, where both of them boarded. After getting in debt to the amount of $80 or $100, O'B, in answer to the landlord's repeated applications, informed him impressively that he 'should have no money for him' for two weeks, when his play being produced, the debt should be discharged in full. Towards the running out of this period, he gave a supper
Describes a story told by Rosenberg about how Fitz James O'Brien didn't pay his rent at his boarding house. Transcription: [sub]ject, I put down Rosenberg's account of O ?B [Fitz James O ?Brien]'s characteristic Diddlerism at a boarding house, in this city, where both of them boarded. After getting in debt to the amount of $80 or $100, O'B, in answer to the landlord's repeated applications, informed him impressively that he 'should have no money for him' for two weeks, when his play being produced, the debt should be discharged in full. Towards the running out of this period, he gave a supper to half a dozen fellows, actors &c ([John] Brougham among them) as desirous of celebrating the performance of his play in advance, 'having no better' about it; inducing the landlord to further expenditure, in wands &c, ordering in champagne and liqueurs from two different wine-merchants. The party kept it up till morning, making a devil of a row, getting drunk, and when they departed O'Brien accompanied one of their number ? to return no more to that boarding house! The table suffered such deterioration in quality in consequence of the landlord's losses, that Rosenberg (who stood it until it came down to bread and butter and onions for tea!) had, with his wife to leave also. Story told by Rosenberg of Willis, to whom he had warm letters of introduction, on arriving at this country, proposing to marry him to a fortune, and on discovering that he was already married dropping his acquaintance, till then quite assiduously cultivated. 'It's damned Title: Thomas Butler Gunn Diaries: Volume 11, page 56, July 13, 1859 . 13 July 1859. Gunn, Thomas Butler, 1826-1903
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