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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.
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Thomas Butler Gunn Diaries, Volume Seven
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Thomas Butler Gunn Diaries, Volume Seven
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Creator: Gunn, Thomas Butler
relators:pbl: Missouri History Museum
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Missouri History Museum
Date Issued
1855
Language
English
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2011-02-02
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A0632
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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.
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Thomas Butler Gunn Diaries
Gunn, . T. B. (1855). Thomas Butler Gunn Diaries, Volume Seven (1–). https://preserve.lehigh.edu/digital-special-collections/gunn-diaries/thomas-butler-gunn-diaries-volume-seven
Gunn, Thomas Butler. 1855. “Thomas Butler Gunn Diaries, Volume Seven”. https://preserve.lehigh.edu/digital-special-collections/gunn-diaries/thomas-butler-gunn-diaries-volume-seven.
Gunn, Thomas Butler. Thomas Butler Gunn Diaries, Volume Seven. 1855, https://preserve.lehigh.edu/digital-special-collections/gunn-diaries/thomas-butler-gunn-diaries-volume-seven.