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Thomas Butler Gunn Diaries, Volume Fourteen
No full textIncludes descriptions of attending a lecture by J.H. Siddons on Queen Victoria; seeing tightrope walker Charles Blondin perform; boarding house living; his freelance writing and drawing work; visits to the Edwards family and his friendship with Sally Edwards; a visit of the Prince of Wales, the future Edward VII of Great Britain, to New York; his work as a reporter for \u27\u27The New York World;\u27\u27 a visit to a dog fighting establishment; an evening spent at the 4th Ward police station awaiting 1860 election returns; and Gunn\u27s experience as a correspondent for ""The New York Evening Post"" in Charleston, South Carolina, in the aftermath of South Carolina\u27s secession from the federal government
Thomas Butler Gunn Diaries, Volume One
No full textDetails Gunn\u27s first year living in the United States, including his experiences with boarding house living in Jersey City and New York City, looking for work as an artist and a writer, publishing his first book ""Mose Among the Britishers"" and brief visits to Philadelphia and Boston
Thomas Butler Gunn Diaries, Volume Eleven
No full textIncludes descriptions of boarding house living at 132 Bleecker Street, his freelance writing and drawing work, the antics of New York literary Bohemians, Fanny Fern and James Parton\u27s marriage, visits to the Edwards family, a Fourth of July excursion with the Edwards family and other friends, letters from Frank Cahill and Bob Gun\u27s mistresses, Jesse Haney\u27s proposal of marriage to Sally Edwards and rejection, Charles Damoreau\u27s return from Boston to live in New York, and attending the Edwards family\u27s 1859 Christmas party
Thomas Butler Gunn Diaries, Volume Seventeen
No full textIncludes Gunn\u27s descriptions of the scene in New York at the commencement of the Civil War; his visits to military camps in and around New York City as a reporter for ""The New York Evening Post;"" boarding house living; a bridal reception at the Edwards family\u27s residence in honor of the marriage of Sally Edwards and Thomas Nast; a visit to the Heylyn and Rogers families in Rochester; and his trip to Paris, Ontario, to visit George Bolton and the Conworths
Thomas Butler Gunn Diaries, Volume Five
No full textIncludes descriptions of Gunn looking for drawing and writing work among New York publishers, witnessing a fire at a chocolate factory, attending a religious camp meeting, his friendship with Lotty Whytal, the 1852 presidential election, a visit to Niagara Falls in the winter, a visit to Toronto, Canada, and the Crystal Palace in New York
Thomas Butler Gunn Diaries, Volume Twelve
No full textIncludes descriptions of boarding house living, his freelance writing and drawing work, antics of the New York literary Bohemians, visits to the Edwards family, the activities of London detective Arthur Ledger who is staying in his boarding house, Thomas Nast\u27s courtship of Sally Edwards, two masked balls at his boarding house, a visit to Lotty Granville at Fordham, the state of Charles Damoreau\u27s marriage, and a visit to the \u27\u27Phalanx\u27\u27 in New Jersey with George Boweryem
Thomas Butler Gunn Diaries, Volume Seven
No full textIncludes an account of his family history and descriptions of his visits with family and friends in England, witnessing a procession for Louis Napoleon in London, traveling in Paris with his brothers Charley and Edwin, his friend Harry Price\u27s mental illness, his journey across the Atlantic to New York on the ship Washington, the marriage of Fanny Fern and James Parton, meetings of the Ornithoryncus Club in New York, and Alfred Waud\u27s elopement with Mary Brainard
Thomas Butler Gunn Diaries, Volume Twenty-One
No full textIncludes Gunn\u27s descriptions of his experiences as a war correspondent for ""The New York Tribune"" at New Orleans, Louisiana, and Baton Rouge, Louisiana; boarding house living; a visit to the Rawlings family; a fight with Mr. Blankman at his boarding house; his journey on the North Star with the Banks expedition; the re-occupation of Baton Rouge by Union forces; a visit to a sugar plantation in Louisiana; and Fanny Fern\u27s daughter Grace Thomson\u27s death
Thomas Butler Gunn Diaries, Volume Three
No full textIncludes descriptions of looking for drawing and writing work among New York publishers, visits to Mrs. Kidder and her daughter Lotty, boarding house living, theater acquaintances, and Lajos Kossuth\u27s visit to New York
Thomas Butler Gunn Diaries, Volume Eight
No full textIncludes descriptions of the process of publishing his book, \u27\u27The Physiology of New-York Boarding Houses;\u27\u27 his poor mental state upon returning to New York from England; meeting Walt Whitman; visits with Fanny Fern, James Parton, and Harriet Jacobs\u27 daughter Louisa who is living with them; a visit to the Catskill Mountains with the Edwards family; moving into the boarding house at 132 Bleecker Street; working on the publication \u27\u27European\u27\u27 with Colonel Hugh Forbes; the death of publisher William Levison and his daughter Ellen in his boarding house; visiting the scene of the murder of a dentist to get a sketch of the suspect; visiting Newport, Rhode Island, on assignment to sketch for Frank Leslie; and the death of his brother-in-law, Joseph Greatbatch
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