Comments on a dream he had about Mary Bilton. Transcription: 7. Sunday. Domestic chores all the morning. Dined at Sweeney ?s with [Alfred] Waud & [Augustus] Fay; then to Office. Waud at the portrait, I reading &c. Supped together, then I called at [Frank] Royal ?s & stayed till 9 or so. To Swinton & Fay ?s room [290 Broadway], with Waud awhile, then to bed, to sleep ? aye, and to dream. Towards the morning, when, according to Ovid & Alain Rene le Sage ?s Asmodeus dreams may presage some shadows of truth, did I dream that which, alas, never, never will come true. She [Mary Bilton] was here, w
Comments on a dream he had about Mary Bilton. Transcription: 7. Sunday. Domestic chores all the morning. Dined at Sweeney ?s with [Alfred] Waud & [Augustus] Fay; then to Office. Waud at the portrait, I reading &c. Supped together, then I called at [Frank] Royal ?s & stayed till 9 or so. To Swinton & Fay ?s room [290 Broadway], with Waud awhile, then to bed, to sleep ? aye, and to dream. Towards the morning, when, according to Ovid & Alain Rene le Sage ?s Asmodeus dreams may presage some shadows of truth, did I dream that which, alas, never, never will come true. She [Mary Bilton] was here, with me, reunited by simple incongruous circumstance! But oh! what a meeting it was ? Oh me! That it should be but a dream! Such warm, loving, passionate words, each glad heart-trusting faith & tenderness, such talk of old time, long separation, such clinging to each other, heart to heart, such tears, such blessed trust and hope and happiness for the future ? such a vista of Heaven ?s light pouring in ?-?! All a Mirage ? all! But I almost wish I could never have waked from that dream! Foolishly said, & foolishly written down, all this fond dream. But I love her Still, and I love Without Hope. She will never be my Wife ? I may never see her again in the World. Title: Thomas Butler Gunn Diaries: Volume 5, page 87, November 7, 1852 . 7 November 1852. Gunn, Thomas Butler, 1826-1903
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