Describes a visit to Lotty Kidder at Fordham. Transcription: I visit Lotty [Kidder]. [open]ed the door and the girls [Sally, Matty, and Eliza Edwards] were gone. God bless all three of them! 27. Friday. [Frank] Cahill had gone out again after supper, coming home very drunk, consequently was very much out of sorts this morning, though he had his ?ǣMomus ? work to do. He Dictated paragraphs to him, and at 10 3/4 turned out for a walk up the 4th Avenus. The day a lovely one, sunny but cool withal. Got a long distance up-town, took cars and by 2 arrived at Fordham. Inquiring for Mrs. Granvil
Describes a visit to Lotty Kidder at Fordham. Transcription: I visit Lotty [Kidder]. [open]ed the door and the girls [Sally, Matty, and Eliza Edwards] were gone. God bless all three of them! 27. Friday. [Frank] Cahill had gone out again after supper, coming home very drunk, consequently was very much out of sorts this morning, though he had his ?ǣMomus ? work to do. He Dictated paragraphs to him, and at 10 3/4 turned out for a walk up the 4th Avenus. The day a lovely one, sunny but cool withal. Got a long distance up-town, took cars and by 2 arrived at Fordham. Inquiring for Mrs. Granville ?s house, was directed up the side of a gentle ascent to a near, pretty spacious, wooden building, standing detached, with garden ground behind it, in which a man and a boy were working. The bell-handle and wire came out as I pulled it. Shown into a parlor, carpeted, furnished, with the old oil-portrait of Lotty, painted by Baker, which I remembered so well, I was looking at it when she bounced into the room, welcomed and kissed me. She was in rustic trim, a not very new brown dress of ordinary material, something in the worsted way (which looked, if it were not really, ragged, in at least one place) pinned over her bosom, a wide-brimmed straw hat ? not so very wide, Title: Thomas Butler Gunn Diaries: Volume 12, page 171, April 26-27, 1860 . 26 April 1860. Gunn, Thomas Butler, 1826-1903
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