Describes feeling ill. Transcription: 19. Monday. Very sick and queer, probably rheumatism, feeling as though each individual bone in my body had been extracted, carefully broken and re placed out of their its proper locality. Unable to touch pencil all day. Rain unceasing all day and New York muddy filthy and dismal to the last degree. Out down town more than once, wearily enough. Very little sleep all night. 20. Tuesday. Sick, and limbs aching worse than ever. Lockington came, and at his request, despairing of better or worse, out with him, first to the Broadway Theatre, then to Old Slip, b
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Describes feeling ill. Transcription: 19. Monday. Very sick and queer, probably rheumatism, feeling as though each individual bone in my body had been extracted, carefully broken and re placed out of their its proper locality. Unable to touch pencil all day. Rain unceasing all day and New York muddy filthy and dismal to the last degree. Out down town more than once, wearily enough. Very little sleep all night. 20. Tuesday. Sick, and limbs aching worse than ever. Lockington came, and at his request, despairing of better or worse, out with him, first to the Broadway Theatre, then to Old Slip, both uselessly and unsuccessfully as it proved. Thence, alone to Canal Street, painfully and dismal enough, then took a hot bath, which I think did me good. Returned and dozed. Joe [Greatbatch] called in the evening, and anon Davis and a crony of his; Davis Title: Thomas Butler Gunn Diaries: Volume 4, page 93, April 19-20, 1852 . 19 April 1852. Gunn, Thomas Butler, 1826-1903