Mentions an incident at his boarding house in which dinner was delayed. Transcription: 24. Tuesday. Drawing four Initials for Lantern. Great spree here to-day about dinner time. Had that horrid girl ?ǣAngee [Angeline Leave] ? come to beg a 50/100 loan, so I guessed there was something anon. No dinner bell rang, so about 1/2 past 3, I went down, and there found divers hungry and exasperate boarders getting relays of steak, about enough for two at a time. Mrs [Anna M.] Leave had dived, as usual ? (it ?s my impression she gets into a subterranean cupboard and locks herself up when there ?s any

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Mentions an incident at his boarding house in which dinner was delayed. Transcription: 24. Tuesday. Drawing four Initials for Lantern. Great spree here to-day about dinner time. Had that horrid girl ?ǣAngee [Angeline Leave] ? come to beg a 50/100 loan, so I guessed there was something anon. No dinner bell rang, so about 1/2 past 3, I went down, and there found divers hungry and exasperate boarders getting relays of steak, about enough for two at a time. Mrs [Anna M.] Leave had dived, as usual ? (it ?s my impression she gets into a subterranean cupboard and locks herself up when there ?s any desperate crisis. Many boarders among the number, and Miss Pease was as red as an aggravated lobster. / Edward Greatbatch came with letter from home. At about 4 went to Swinton and Fays ?, there awhile ? then Title: Thomas Butler Gunn Diaries: Volume 4, page 41, February 24, 1852 . 24 February 1852. Gunn, Thomas Butler, 1826-1903