Describes a letter received from Alf Waud. Transcription: found the pillow covered with blood, from my unhappy gums.) Writing &c. A letter from George Bolton, inclosing one from Dick [Bolton], came yesterday. The former talks of a trip westwards towards Lake Huron, in seach of an eligible farm, and says he can rent one in his present vicinity for 60 [pounds] a year. 23. Monday. Finished letter to home. Chores &c. Down town, to Post Office and elsewhere. A lovely autumnal day, with a coolness about it delicious but sadly suggestive of the death of summer. Busy, and returned tired to dinner. Al
Describes a letter received from Alf Waud. Transcription: found the pillow covered with blood, from my unhappy gums.) Writing &c. A letter from George Bolton, inclosing one from Dick [Bolton], came yesterday. The former talks of a trip westwards towards Lake Huron, in seach of an eligible farm, and says he can rent one in his present vicinity for 60 [pounds] a year. 23. Monday. Finished letter to home. Chores &c. Down town, to Post Office and elsewhere. A lovely autumnal day, with a coolness about it delicious but sadly suggestive of the death of summer. Busy, and returned tired to dinner. All alone the rest of the day, as usual; not well, and a trifle melancholic. 24. Tuesday. To Doctor. Phonography and writing till dinner, a walk down town after. Ill. Another autumn day, cooler than yesterday, but very beautiful. 25. Wednesday. An ?ǣexpress ? drawing on wood from Alf Waud for me to take to [Frank] Leslie ?s. He writes that he is going to Willsboro ? I suppose near Lake Winnipissogee ? to join ?ǣMary [Waud], ? then to New York. Will Waud ?ǣis a father ? six weeks ago! ? Suggestive. Alf met B. G. Stone on the day his letter ?s dated (who ?ǣsaid he ?d met me, last spring, a devil of a swell! ?) He, Stone, ?ǣappears as shiftless a ever. ? Writing, hard, at story till dinner. Then down town and got the long due $16 from Frank Leslie ?s. Evening partly down stairs. Folks talking of an odd incident apropos of Mrs Patten ?s visit to a ?ǣmedium. ? This person, a girl of sixteen, whom she had never seen before, spelt out the name of a cousin of hers, travelling in Europe, imitated coughing and asserted her death ? wri- Title: Thomas Butler Gunn Diaries: Volume 9, page 187, August 22-25, 1858 . 22 August 1858. Gunn, Thomas Butler, 1826-1903
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