Mentions his work and meeting an editor, Hardin Andrews. on his island, and no such heathful thoughts. 6. Wednesday. Yesterday repeated. Intensely lonely. 7. Thursday. ?ǣMose [among the Britishers] ? all day, as usual. Hughie [Muir] came in the evening. Two letters from me, ? one from [Jabez] Wing; and one from [Abraham] Hart, expectant of the stories, or part of them. Out with Hughie ? (his good-humoured face cheered the dull hot room mightily, by the bye ? Like the good Vicar of Wakefield I love happy faces.) A walk down Broadway. Then passed over through the crushing ice to Jersey, and

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Mentions his work and meeting an editor, Hardin Andrews. on his island, and no such heathful thoughts. 6. Wednesday. Yesterday repeated. Intensely lonely. 7. Thursday. ?ǣMose [among the Britishers] ? all day, as usual. Hughie [Muir] came in the evening. Two letters from me, ? one from [Jabez] Wing; and one from [Abraham] Hart, expectant of the stories, or part of them. Out with Hughie ? (his good-humoured face cheered the dull hot room mightily, by the bye ? Like the good Vicar of Wakefield I love happy faces.) A walk down Broadway. Then passed over through the crushing ice to Jersey, and the Boot Store. Old [Bill] Collinson hard at work. There an hour, a glass of ale, I walk to the house with them, they walk back to the Ferry with me, and there we part. 8. Friday. Wrote to Hart. And taking letter to Post Office made a call at Ann Street, owing by Newsboys, that Hardin Andrews ? the first Editor of ?ǣEmpire City ?, [words crossed out] had started a paper of his own. He was not in ? must call again. / Back to [168] Duane, and hard, hard, at work on ?ǣMose. ? Unwell in body ? horrid indigestion, and low-spirited in mind, to excess. No present cause to fear it, but thoughts of my present job-ending body ? not getting paid ? if it was to hap. So heart-sick, so melancholic I can ?t describe. 9. Saturday. Calling saw Hardin Andrews. Contrast on the right side with Hawkins. Gave me a file of his paper. Title: Thomas Butler Gunn Diaries: Volume 1, page 86, February 5-9, 1850 . 5 February 1850. Gunn, Thomas Butler, 1826-1903