Regarding Lotty Kidder's former marriage with John Whytal. Transcription: Her [Charlotte Kidder], but is aware now. There's been no divorce or attempt at any on her or [John] Whytal's part. He can't sue, she says, as she did something towards charging him with cruelty or abandonment. He was 'a low, mean-spirited, malicious man,' and would punch her, in company, 'till she was black and blue all over' knowing 'her spirit' was such that she would not complain. ( ) She has kept [Arthur] Alleyne for two years, doesn't love him, has 'never loved any body yet.' He has had a good education, puts it t
Regarding Lotty Kidder's former marriage with John Whytal. Transcription: Her [Charlotte Kidder], but is aware now. There's been no divorce or attempt at any on her or [John] Whytal's part. He can't sue, she says, as she did something towards charging him with cruelty or abandonment. He was 'a low, mean-spirited, malicious man,' and would punch her, in company, 'till she was black and blue all over' knowing 'her spirit' was such that she would not complain. ( ) She has kept [Arthur] Alleyne for two years, doesn't love him, has 'never loved any body yet.' He has had a good education, puts it to no use, has that 'dirty English pride' which inclines him to believe that it is less degradation to get in debt or sponge than turn his hand to this and that. He is a drunkard, too. She has now told him that he must reform, must get something to do as she will keep him no longer, granting six months as her ultimatum for washing her blackamoor white. Thus Lotty. Of course there are other sides to the story, yet I am inclined to think the wretched girl as much sinned against as sinning. The morphine story tallies a little with what I have heard heretofore, though her waywardness sometimes inclined her so towards Whytal that I should scarcely have supposed he needed to resort to so odious an expedient. (There was that squat little squirt of a Dan Dodd too, whom she now mentions with contempt ? contempt only ? there would be rage if no! Lotty I can't suspect you there!) What is she like now? Well very little altered from the time when I first Title: Thomas Butler Gunn Diaries: Volume 11, page 20, June 13, 1859 . 13 June 1859. Gunn, Thomas Butler, 1826-1903
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