Includes the letter Alfred Waud wrote to Mrs. Jewell, explaining how he eloped with her daughter, Mary. Transcription: a husband [Albert Brainard] vulgar and jealous. From this time I was interested. I could see she [Mary Brainard] was not happy, and soon after left alone in the house, I made her acquaintance through the medium of such slight courtesies as occasionally carrying her coal-hod upstairs &c or attentions at the table. Leading a desultory artist existence, mostly working in my own room, it would often happen, going in or out that I saw her sitting alone at work in the parlor, on su
Includes the letter Alfred Waud wrote to Mrs. Jewell, explaining how he eloped with her daughter, Mary. Transcription: a husband [Albert Brainard] vulgar and jealous. From this time I was interested. I could see she [Mary Brainard] was not happy, and soon after left alone in the house, I made her acquaintance through the medium of such slight courtesies as occasionally carrying her coal-hod upstairs &c or attentions at the table. Leading a desultory artist existence, mostly working in my own room, it would often happen, going in or out that I saw her sitting alone at work in the parlor, on such occasions entering into conversation. I found in her not any very brilliant wit or abstruse ideas, but a refreshing artlessness of thought and manner that increased my interest as they gave indications of an affectionate nature pure and sensitive. I loved already, but could not make up my mind to leave. For 8 years* I had been free from the tender passion, and the feeling was too fresh and new to give up readily. I trusted to my powers of dissimilation to keep it secret. No frail son of Adam was ever worse confounded than I on discovering that my regard was seen and returned. I passed a sleepless night revolving in my mind a thousand plans; to one alone did duty prompt ? departure. I determined on it, but delayed till too late. Our feelings could no more be disguised, we loved passionately and purely. A dishonest ? * This ignores [Thomas] Allom's little niece, and also the little girl at the Boston Boarding-House. Title: Thomas Butler Gunn Diaries: Volume 7, page 223, April 12, 1856 . 12 April 1856. Waud, Alfred R. (Alfred Rudolph), 1828-1891
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