Describes John Whytal's tale of the reason he married Lotty. Transcription: he ?d [John Whytal had] been to Beach Street, and had interview with Mrs [Rebecca] Kidder, who was ?ǣpolite ? to him. He ?d shut her up, in fact. And how the nurse had cried at the notion of parting with the child [Frederick Whytal], on which he said she shouldn ?t as yet, as he ?d pay her for nursing it. Then came the retrospective matters. ?ǣI was a fool ? said he ?ǣto marry a woman [Charlotte Kidder] who allowed me to take every liberty before we were married! ? ?ǣEvery liberty said I, ?ǣdid it go as far as that
Describes John Whytal's tale of the reason he married Lotty. Transcription: he ?d [John Whytal had] been to Beach Street, and had interview with Mrs [Rebecca] Kidder, who was ?ǣpolite ? to him. He ?d shut her up, in fact. And how the nurse had cried at the notion of parting with the child [Frederick Whytal], on which he said she shouldn ?t as yet, as he ?d pay her for nursing it. Then came the retrospective matters. ?ǣI was a fool ? said he ?ǣto marry a woman [Charlotte Kidder] who allowed me to take every liberty before we were married! ? ?ǣEvery liberty said I, ?ǣdid it go as far as that Out he spake in coarse brothel-phrase that it had. With details. She had allowed him to be in her room, some evenings before, and that was the result. There was weeping after it, ?ǣshe cried ? said he. He made a merit of marrying her. ?ǣI might have gone to New Orleans, or Texas ? said he, I could have done well there, and what could she have done. ? She said she should have killed herself. I was hurried into the marriage. I used to say to myself ?ǣwhat are you doing of? I knew what actresses where [were], ? had always taken what chances came in my way. But I did not love the little devil. ? But that he knew that he was the first, he would not have wedded her. Then he spoke of her conduct after marriage. Of her coquettings with a fat Englishman, twice her age, and correspondence with him, unknown to Whytal. That she wrote once proposing to run off with him, [word crossed out] if she could go back to New York. Shall I, Jean Jacques Rousseau like put down thoughts that I should despise myself for? When I heard him tell all this, coarsely enough, scant grammar and gutter phrase; ? when I heard this, knowing right well as I do, that Never yet did, or can come true happiness of that impure passion bred by desire, ? that Title: Thomas Butler Gunn Diaries: Volume 6, page 48, August 8, 1853 . 8 August 1853. Gunn, Thomas Butler, 1826-1903
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