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Title	Thomas Butler Gunn Diaries, Volume Sixteen
Full Title	Thomas Butler Gunn Diaries, Volume Sixteen
Description	Includes Gunn's descriptions of the scene in New York at the commencement of the Civil War, boarding house living, visits to the Edwards family, Mort Thomson's engagement to Fanny Fern's daughter Grace Eldredge, Frank Cahill's return to New York from London, Frank Bellew's dissatisfaction with living in England, Thomas Nast's engagement to Sally Edwards, the scene in New York during the departure of the 7th New York Regiment for Washington, attending the wedding of Olive Waite and Hamilton Bragg, a visit with Frank Cahill to the camp of the 1st Regiment of New York Volunteers and the 2nd Regiment of New York State Militia on Staten Island, the death of Charles Welden, and his reporting work.
Date Text	1861
Subject	Boardinghouses; Bohemians; Civil War; Gunn, Thomas Butler; Journalism; Marriage; Military; Publishers and publishing; Women
MHM Subject	Art and Literature; Military; Wars-Civil War; Women
Collection	Thomas Butler Gunn Diaries
Creator	Gunn, Thomas Butler
Coverage	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	2010-06-08
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 Sixteen: 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	2010-05-24
Rights	Copyright 2010 Missouri History Museum.
Publisher	Missouri History Museum
Collection Number	A0632
Institution	Missouri History Museum
Fulltext	[front cover]

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