Diaries, Vol. 6

Welden tells Gunn about O'Brien knocking someone's teeth out: "While at it Welden came, talked awhile. How Seymour was detested in the Office, how O'Brien had knocked out teeth twain from an harmless individual's mouth for permitting the expression to escape 'that he was no gentleman!'" (47)

Gunn explains the duties of the Times staff: "Wilson has left the 'Times'. Seymour does the dramaticals & O'Brien hardly anything" (207).

Welden informs Gunn of O'Brien's lie: "Welden called on me in the morning. I think he had been imbibing a little, and he talked freely of Seymour and O'Brien. How the latter had told gratis lies about my poor Ghost Story in the Whig Review, saying that it had been translated, adapted, stolen from the french. I who can't read a line of french am likely to have thought of such a thing! Little thought I when scribbling away in the Leonard street attic, of such a charge. Nevertheless both Seymour, (alias Bailey) & O'Brien have industriously lied to that effect. And the former ridiculed, vilified and tattled of our Staten Island summer ramble, when I & Waud admitted him to our company. And O'Brien always 'carries loaded pistols' – (bah, – the coward!) since he was licked at Barton's theatre. And tis surmised that Seymour does the same" (219).

Gunn accuses Seymour of lying" "Nevertheless both Seymour, (alias Bailey) & O'Brien have industriously lied to that effect. And the former ridiculed, vilified and tattled of our Staten Island summer ramble, when I & Waud admitted him to our company. And O'Brien always 'carries loaded pistols' – (bah, – the coward!) since he was licked at Barton's theatre. And tis surmised that Seymour does the same."