It was a legendarily turbulent trade union, fueled by adoration, criminal conversation and alcohol.
In the final hours of Dylan Thomas' life, his wife, Caitlin, according to lore, allegedly stormed in and demanded to know if the celebrated Welsh poet - who she described as the "flaming man" - was dead yet.
But wish most marriages, it appears there was a different side, and in a diary that is now for sales agreement, Caitlin Thomas wrote lamentably about her dead husband.
"Oh God, oh Dylan, it must be cold down there; it is cold enough on top, in November: the dirtiest month of the year that killed you on the ninth despicable day. If only I could need you a bowl of your bread, and milk, and sALT, that you always drank at night, to quick you up," the diary says, according to notes provided by a London rare book dealer wHO is marketing the collection.
The couple met in a London gin mill in 1936 and married a class later. Dylan Thomas died in New York on Nov. 9, 1953. Caitlin Thomas died in 1994.
Her writings, contained in a school exercise book, ar included in a collection of more than 40 letters, books, and manuscripts and offset editions. Rick Gekoski, the dealer world Health Organization is merchandising the materials, said Monday that it came from a New York collector and is priced at $480,000.
Also up for sale is a first-edition copy of Thomas' second book, "Twenty-five Poems."
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