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Comments on Alf Waud, and wonders if he will ever see Mary Bilton again. Transcription: at Lockington ?s, (where [Alfred] Waud was, but he went out on my coming in,) then Excelsior and supper, and from thence with aching teeth, head, and body back up my 6 steps to my own solitary room [290 Broadway], and melancholic fancies. I don ?t regret [Alfred] Waud, for he ?s wrong, and must have a hard, uncaring nature to persist in ?t. But it would do me good now to have a talk with George Bolton or [William] Boutcher. There ?s a jar and clatter of carriages ceaseless clamoring down Broadway, and the
Comments on Alf Waud, and wonders if he will ever see Mary Bilton again. Transcription: at Lockington ?s, (where [Alfred] Waud was, but he went out on my coming in,) then Excelsior and supper, and from thence with aching teeth, head, and body back up my 6 steps to my own solitary room [290 Broadway], and melancholic fancies. I don ?t regret [Alfred] Waud, for he ?s wrong, and must have a hard, uncaring nature to persist in ?t. But it would do me good now to have a talk with George Bolton or [William] Boutcher. There ?s a jar and clatter of carriages ceaseless clamoring down Broadway, and the rain is falling downwards ? And I ?m all alone. I wonder where she [Mary Bilton] is ? now, and whether I shall ever see her again in this World? 15. Thursday. Having lain awake the greater part of the night, troubled with a raging tooth, picturing the detail of the mornings extraction, I set off through the pitiless plashing rain, breakfasted Title: Thomas Butler Gunn Diaries: Volume 4, page 87, April 14-15, 1852 . 14 April 1852. Gunn, Thomas Butler, 1826-1903
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