Describes a conversation with Catharine Potter and Lucia Cooper about Mrs. Theodore Griffin's [former Elizabeth Gouverneur's] past. Transcription: Her latest Husband. that she [Elizabeth Gouverneur] pitied him [Adolphus Gouverneur]. He had a heart disease, so she married him! ? ?ǣMy brother hadn ?t a heart disease, but she killed him, ? quoth [Warburton] Gouverneur. ?ǣI don ?t believe she ever did love him. ? Johnny [Upham] was astounded on learning of the existence of Rawson [Gill]. ?ǣHas Mrs. Gouverneur a son twenty-five years of age he echoed, he himself being the same, or younger. ?ǣThe
Describes a conversation with Catharine Potter and Lucia Cooper about Mrs. Theodore Griffin's [former Elizabeth Gouverneur's] past. Transcription: Her latest Husband. that she [Elizabeth Gouverneur] pitied him [Adolphus Gouverneur]. He had a heart disease, so she married him! ? ?ǣMy brother hadn ?t a heart disease, but she killed him, ? quoth [Warburton] Gouverneur. ?ǣI don ?t believe she ever did love him. ? Johnny [Upham] was astounded on learning of the existence of Rawson [Gill]. ?ǣHas Mrs. Gouverneur a son twenty-five years of age he echoed, he himself being the same, or younger. ?ǣThen she has deceived me. He didn ?t want to marry her, he said, but the idea of causing her death troubled him and brought him up to what would have been, literally ?ǣthe scratch. ? So Johnny returned, but he didn ?t return some $100 or $200 worth of jewelry which Mrs. Gouverneur had given him to propitiate ?ǣhis sister. ? When Miss [Lucia] Cooper and Mrs G ?s guest at Cold Spring, the ?ǣCaptain ? Walker heretofore alluded to presented himself and the widow proposed they should accompany him to Saratoga. Miss C. wouldn ?t consent, and left for New York, Mrs G. following. The fellow stayed at the house one night. Theodore Griffin, her last matrimonial captive, Mrs. [Catharine] Potter describes as a countryman, a young fellow, of no great experience or knowledge of life. Mrs G. managed her wooing slyly and secretly, no one (says Miss C.) had wind of the event till close on its advent. The woman was after every man in the house and place, Title: Thomas Butler Gunn Diaries: Volume 12, page 32, January 23, 1860 . 23 January 1860. Gunn, Thomas Butler, 1826-1903
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