Figure 38  Photograph of Edith Bolling Thorley, Palin’s wife, in the garden of their home in East Liverpool, ca. 1920. (Courtesy, Thorley Papers, Swem Library, College of William and Mary.) The Thorleys were married in 1916, during World War I, and were devoted to each other until her death, in 1975, an event from which he never recovered. In my last visits with him, during any break in the conversation, he would shake his head and repeat, “Oh, my poor Edith.”