Comments on Don Quixote, and expresses frustration that he has not yet received a letter from Mary Bilton. Transcription: migrateth, being expedited out of door way by pedal acceleration of John Haun, and justly. Also ?ǣNed ? the behind-left-by-Steamer Steward. Also an Irish widow, who hath for some ten-days sojourned here. Also (for a season) printer John Rankin; whom I, this morning witnessed at his profession avoations, in the office of the Jersey ?ǣSentinel. ? 18. Tuesday. ?ǣMose [among the Britishers] ? till Evening. A thousand, thousand, thoughts of the dear face I am so far from. I hav
Comments on Don Quixote, and expresses frustration that he has not yet received a letter from Mary Bilton. Transcription: migrateth, being expedited out of door way by pedal acceleration of John Haun, and justly. Also ?ǣNed ? the behind-left-by-Steamer Steward. Also an Irish widow, who hath for some ten-days sojourned here. Also (for a season) printer John Rankin; whom I, this morning witnessed at his profession avoations, in the office of the Jersey ?ǣSentinel. ? 18. Tuesday. ?ǣMose [among the Britishers] ? till Evening. A thousand, thousand, thoughts of the dear face I am so far from. I have more love than hope; ? it is the reverse with her [Mary Bilton] ? so I judge. Oh God, what would I not give to hold her in my arms now! How long ? how long ?- 19. Wednesday. Big poster all day. Wrote to Joe [Greatbatch] in the evening. 20. Thursday. ?ǣMose ? all day. Head-aching and irritability. Evening, took out [Don] Quixote and read a little. What a grave, kindly Shakspere-like Spaniard was Cervantes. How finely are the characters of the poor Don and Sancho elaborated in the Second part. (How well too, is the scurrilous, plagiarizing, self-dubbed Avallaneda rebuked in its Preface.) Page, soldier, scholar, poet, enslaved and mutilated in the service of his country, ? that country he loved and writ for, ? Miguel de Cervantes, I honour thee. How well should I like to pilgrimage in the footsteps of thy noble-hearted and not ridiculous hero. 21. Friday. Big poster, which I finished by 8 in the evening. Then feeling irritable, lonely, disgust with the four walls that have enclosed me Title: Thomas Butler Gunn Diaries: Volume 1, page 65, December 17-21, 1849 . 17 December 1849. Gunn, Thomas Butler, 1826-1903
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