Reminisces about Mary Bilton. Transcription: one day, found them [Elizabeth Dobson and Mr. Tilton] calmly reposing on her bed together. The little fool pays dearly for that ugly whistle now. / A four miles ramble, passing around a complete square formed by the right angled roads. [Edward] Heylyn and Elisha Hall talking agriculturally, or of the neighbours, I occasionally joining in from time to time, or loitering in the rear musing on many things. How it was I know not, but my thoughts reverted with strange intensity to a certain evening ?s return from little Leyton, side by side with ___ [Ma
Reminisces about Mary Bilton. Transcription: one day, found them [Elizabeth Dobson and Mr. Tilton] calmly reposing on her bed together. The little fool pays dearly for that ugly whistle now. / A four miles ramble, passing around a complete square formed by the right angled roads. [Edward] Heylyn and Elisha Hall talking agriculturally, or of the neighbours, I occasionally joining in from time to time, or loitering in the rear musing on many things. How it was I know not, but my thoughts reverted with strange intensity to a certain evening ?s return from little Leyton, side by side with ___ [Mary Bilton]. A summery starlight night, ? July, eight years ago, ? my arm around her, my eyes looking into hers, her sweet breath fanning my cheek, ? each revelling in the most loving, reciprocal words ? words so deep, so dear ? [words crossed out] Never ? More. This night [word crossed out] a yearning took possession of my soul; like unto that of [word crossed out] [Robinson] Crusoe towards human kind when on his desert isle. Where is she? What is she? thinks she of me ? ever? She may be ? married. She may be, Oh God ? dead. I pray not. I think even now, to hear of the loss of that sweet life would shake my heart to dust. And yet what a dry agony in the thought that she had wedded ? she, another ?s wife. She whom I have loved All My Life. / I don ?t know how the devil this is. At all odd solitary times comes comes up this thought ? this ghost of Past loving to haunt Title: Thomas Butler Gunn Diaries: Volume 5, page 11, August 3, 1852 . 3 August 1852. Gunn, Thomas Butler, 1826-1903
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