Describes Arthur Ledger. Transcription: [Arthur] Ledger. [William Waud self]ishly ran away from her ? she a mother, too. 4. Saturday. Hither and thither, to [Frank] Bellews, lost my dinner, down-town, to ?ǣCourier, ? ?ǣPic ? office &c. Tired out at night. Whist-party in Ledger ?s room. Mrs. [Susan] Boley, Miss [Sarah] Maguire, Billington, Bob Gun, [Frank] Cahill and anon [James] Morris. I sat up for an hour subsequent with Ledger, he talking autobiographically. He is a shortish rather than middle-sized man, trimly dressed in solid-looking clothes, dark-colored ones, no shirt collar visible.
Describes Arthur Ledger. Transcription: [Arthur] Ledger. [William Waud self]ishly ran away from her ? she a mother, too. 4. Saturday. Hither and thither, to [Frank] Bellews, lost my dinner, down-town, to ?ǣCourier, ? ?ǣPic ? office &c. Tired out at night. Whist-party in Ledger ?s room. Mrs. [Susan] Boley, Miss [Sarah] Maguire, Billington, Bob Gun, [Frank] Cahill and anon [James] Morris. I sat up for an hour subsequent with Ledger, he talking autobiographically. He is a shortish rather than middle-sized man, trimly dressed in solid-looking clothes, dark-colored ones, no shirt collar visible. Very reddish faced, inclining to bald-ness, his hair darkish, wearing a shortish beard and moustache. Not good-looking, inclining indeed perhaps to ugliness, though of no pronounced character. The flesh surrounding his eyes is protuberant, the eyes themselves have a trick of displaying their whites, which in conjunction with their scarlet surroundings, produce the effect denominated by Cahill ?ǣa revolving-light ?-house aspect. A curt, blunt, gross-speaking, gross sharp-thinking man, ordinarily straight-forward in expressing his opinions on little things, but quietly alert, wily and watchful. Fundamentally English, even to naivete, which contrasts oddly with his vocation. The man is really high in authority as a London detective, considerably above the Fields, ?ǣBuckets ? and such. I judge him to be perfectly unscrupulous as to means to Title: Thomas Butler Gunn Diaries: Volume 12, page 41, February 3-4, 1860 . 3 February 1860. Gunn, Thomas Butler, 1826-1903
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