In the MS of the journal, however, it is spelled first _Matilda_, later _Mathilda_.
[2] Mary has here added detail and contrast to the description in _F of F--A_, in which the passage "save a few black patches ...

on the plain ground" does not appear.
[3] The addition of "I am alone ...

withered me" motivates Mathilda's state of mind and her resolve to write her history.
[4] Mathilda too is the unwitting victim in a story of incest.

Like Oedipus, she has lost her parent-lover by suicide; like him she leaves the scene of the revelation overwhelmed by a sense of her own guilt, "a sacred horror"; like him, she finds a measure of peace as she is about to die.
[5] The addition of "the precious memorials ...

gratitude towards you," by its suggestion of the relationship between Mathilda and Woodville, serves to justify the detailed narration.
[6] At this point two sheets have been removed from the notebook.
There is no break in continuity, however.
[7] The descriptions of Mathilda's father and mother and the account of their marriage in the next few pages are greatly expanded from _F of F--A_, where there is only one brief paragraph.