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Title | Thomas Butler Gunn Diaries, Volume Fourteen |
Full Title | Thomas Butler Gunn Diaries, Volume Fourteen |
Description | Includes 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 'The New York World;' a visit to a dog fighting establishment; an evening spent at the 4th Ward police station awaiting 1860 election returns; and Gunn's experience as a correspondent for "The New York Evening Post" in Charleston, South Carolina, in the aftermath of South Carolina's secession from the federal government. |
Date Text | 1860 |
Subject | Boardinghouses; Civil War; Elections; Gunn, Thomas Butler; Journalism; Military; Police; Publishers and publishing; Secession; Slavery; Slaves; Travel |
MHM Subject | African Americans; Art and Literature; Military; Transportation; Travel; Wars-Civil War |
Collection | Thomas Butler Gunn Diaries |
Creator | Gunn, Thomas Butler |
Coverage | New York, New York; Charleston, South Carolina |
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 | 2010-05-04 |
Rights | Copyright 2010 Missouri History Museum. |
Publisher | Missouri History Museum |
Collection Number | A0632 |
Institution | Missouri History Museum |
Title | Page 001 |
Full Title | Thomas Butler Gunn Diaries, Volume Fourteen: 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 | 2010-04-26 |
Rights | Copyright 2010 Missouri History Museum. |
Publisher | Missouri History Museum |
Collection Number | A0632 |
Institution | Missouri History Museum |
Fulltext | [front cover] |
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