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Thomas Butler Gunn Diaries, Volume Nine

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Title	Thomas Butler Gunn Diaries, Volume Nine
Full Title	Thomas Butler Gunn Diaries, Volume Nine
Description	Includes descriptions of boardinghouse living, a picnic at Hoboken with other New York artists and journalists, his drawing and writing work in New York, attending a lecture by Lola Montez, visits to James Parton and Fanny Fern and the Edwards family, a controversy over Fitz James O'Brien's story 'The Diamond Lens,' artist Sol Eytinge's relationship with writer Allie Vernon, the suicide of writer Henry William Herbert, antics of the New York Bohemians, the interest of people living in his boarding house in spiritualism, a visit to his friend George Bolton's farm in Canada, a visit to Niagara Falls, and a scandal involving Harbormaster Willis Patten, who lives in his boarding house.
Date Text	1857
Subject	Boardinghouses; Bohemians; Farms; Gunn, Thomas Butler; Publishers and publishing; Suicide; Travel; Women
MHM Subject	Art and Literature; Travel; Women
Collection	Thomas Butler Gunn Diaries
Creator	Gunn, Thomas Butler
Coverage	New York, New York; Rochester, New York; Elmira, New York; Paris, Ontario, Canada
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 Nine: 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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