Describes a conversation with Lotty Kidder about her past. Transcription: 13. Monday. To [William] Blakeman's and to [Edward] Dixon's, then to Mechanic's Institute to read up religious papers for article. There till noon of a sultry day. Returning and to work. By 3 got a letter from Lotty [Kidder], requesting me to come round to Houston Street, to Mrs Duryee's, her daughter bringing it. Went, and in a little front room up one flight of stairs sate conversing with Lotty for perhaps two hours. Here's her story. For some time previous to her final separation from [John] Whytal, they, though oste
Describes a conversation with Lotty Kidder about her past. Transcription: 13. Monday. To [William] Blakeman's and to [Edward] Dixon's, then to Mechanic's Institute to read up religious papers for article. There till noon of a sultry day. Returning and to work. By 3 got a letter from Lotty [Kidder], requesting me to come round to Houston Street, to Mrs Duryee's, her daughter bringing it. Went, and in a little front room up one flight of stairs sate conversing with Lotty for perhaps two hours. Here's her story. For some time previous to her final separation from [John] Whytal, they, though ostensibly man and wife were only ostensibly so. He availing himself of her suffering from neurologia gave her morphine and during the subsequent insensibility ? She became pregnant for the second time. Whytal went off, finally. I think Lotty was in Philadelphia or Baltimore or Washington, probably playing in Laura Keene's troupe, which she quitted on the approach of maternity to return to New York to her mother's house. Mrs [Rebecca] Kidder received her with more than coldness, talked of scandal and inconvenience, said that the unhappy girl's lying-in there was out of the question as it would put a stopper on her (the maternal bitch's) approaching union with [Moses] Morse. So Lotty, half mad and desperate, returned to Philadelphia. The child was born, subsequently died within some weeks. She found herself without friends; [Arthur] Alleyne was kind to her. They have with occasional separations lived together ever since. He did not know that she was married when he married Title: Thomas Butler Gunn Diaries: Volume 11, page 19, June 13, 1859 . 13 June 1859. Gunn, Thomas Butler, 1826-1903
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