Describes seeing Lotty Kidder perform at Sedgwick's concert. Transcription: [word crossed out] extensive [word crossed out]. Up Broadway to hear [] Chapin preach. Met Dillon [Mapother], [Alfred] Waud & [Charles] Damoreau at Erford ?s subsequently. 13. Monday. Drawing, title to ?ǣMoon Hoax ? &c. Mr [Henry] Hart came. Dined together at Erford ?s; to room again; then down town. Bunnell & Price ?s &c. Calls. Left Mr Hart in Nassau Street, back to room, supped & work till 7, then up town to the Stuyvesant Institute, to Sedgwick ?s concert, at which Lotty [Kidder] (alias Miss De Forrest) ?ǣassi
Describes seeing Lotty Kidder perform at Sedgwick's concert. Transcription: [word crossed out] extensive [word crossed out]. Up Broadway to hear [] Chapin preach. Met Dillon [Mapother], [Alfred] Waud & [Charles] Damoreau at Erford ?s subsequently. 13. Monday. Drawing, title to ?ǣMoon Hoax ? &c. Mr [Henry] Hart came. Dined together at Erford ?s; to room again; then down town. Bunnell & Price ?s &c. Calls. Left Mr Hart in Nassau Street, back to room, supped & work till 7, then up town to the Stuyvesant Institute, to Sedgwick ?s concert, at which Lotty [Kidder] (alias Miss De Forrest) ?ǣassisted. ? It was a dreary, feeble business; the lecture spoken all damnable common places, inconcievably [inconceivably] inane. Sedgwick sang in [word crossed out] inefficient drawing room style, nor did Lotty appear to any great advantage. The audience were not many but very goodnatured. Mrs K [Rebecca Kidder] & [Moses] Morse & other folk I knew were there, though I didn ?t see the former. Met [Charles Bailey] Seymour who stayed half the ?ǣentertainment. ? Two of Lotty ?s songs were encored, the latter owing to the enthusiastic hand-applause of little [John] Whytal, who sat on a rear bench, from which, before I saw him I had particularly noted the clamor therefrom proceeding! We shook hands & talked awhile & I was leaving, when he called to me from the little railed-in semi-circle where the lecture & singing was given. So I went into a small subter- Title: Thomas Butler Gunn Diaries: Volume 5, page 217, June 12-13, 1853 . 12 June 1853. Gunn, Thomas Butler, 1826-1903
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