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Title | Thomas Butler Gunn Diaries, Volume Seven |
Full Title | Thomas Butler Gunn Diaries, Volume Seven |
Description | Includes 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's 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's elopement with Mary Brainard. |
Date Text | 1855 |
Subject | Bohemians; Gunn, Thomas Butler; Marriage; Mental illness; Publishers and publishing; Travel; Women |
MHM Subject | Art and Literature; Travel; Women |
Collection | Thomas Butler Gunn Diaries |
Creator | Gunn, Thomas Butler |
Coverage | London, England; Paris, France; New York, New York |
Note | Thomas Butler Gunn was born February 15, 1826, in Banbury, England, and came to New York in 1849. During the Civil War he worked as a correspondent for the New York Tribune and the New York Evening Post. He returned to England in 1863, and died in Birmingham in April 1903. The collection includes twenty-one volumes of his diaries, including newspaper clippings, letters, and various other items inserted by Gunn. Diary entries date from July 7, 1849, to April 7, 1863, and include his experiences with the New York publishing and literary world, his descriptions of boarding houses, his travels throughout the United States, and his experiences traveling with the Federal army as a Civil War correspondent. |
Type | Document |
Format | Text |
Language | Eng |
Scan Date | 2011-02-02 |
Rights | Copyright 2011 Missouri History Museum. |
Publisher | Missouri History Museum |
Collection Number | A0632 |
Institution | Missouri History Museum |
Title | Page 001 |
Full Title | Thomas Butler Gunn Diaries, Volume Seven: page one |
Description | Front cover. |
Subject | Gunn, Thomas Butler |
Collection | Thomas Butler Gunn Diaries |
Creator | Gunn, Thomas Butler |
Type | Document |
Format | Text |
Language | Eng |
Scan Date | 2011-02-02 |
Rights | Copyright 2011 Missouri History Museum. |
Publisher | Missouri History Museum |
Collection Number | A0632 |
Institution | Missouri History Museum |
Fulltext | [front cover] |
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