Comments on similarities between Lotty Kidder and her mother Rebecca Kidder. Transcription: her infant ?s [Frederick Whytal ?s] sake ? &c. And Lotty [Kidder] eloquently and pathetically asks, / in pen and ink. ?ǣIs not my fate a hard one, dearest Mother [Rebecca Kidder]? A daughter, without father [William Kidder] or mother; a wife without a husband [John Whytal]; a mother without a child And withal Lotty knows her mother to be living in adultery; that that mother has called her ?ǣa rotten b__-?! ? And she herself loves not her own child. / A terrible similarity betwixt mother and daughter.
Comments on similarities between Lotty Kidder and her mother Rebecca Kidder. Transcription: her infant ?s [Frederick Whytal ?s] sake ? &c. And Lotty [Kidder] eloquently and pathetically asks, / in pen and ink. ?ǣIs not my fate a hard one, dearest Mother [Rebecca Kidder]? A daughter, without father [William Kidder] or mother; a wife without a husband [John Whytal]; a mother without a child And withal Lotty knows her mother to be living in adultery; that that mother has called her ?ǣa rotten b__-?! ? And she herself loves not her own child. / A terrible similarity betwixt mother and daughter. A terrible couple of portraits, which I will do justice to, if ever pen and brain work well, some day; unsoftening aught. What a wretched old woman that girl will be, no good life to look back upon, no one to love her! God pardon her, and all of us. How dully wicked [Moses] Morse and Mrs K must feel, the long evenings they pass together. They have few visitors now. I think he is a little overbearing, autocratic, Tilton like. Sensual gratification must soon have palled with them, to become a slavish, shameful need. She talks endless platitudes, he must be weary, she still parades approaching marriage with him, even talking of ?ǣengagement. ? Well! it might be. But I don ?t think it. Sin is a miserable business in this world. [Emanuel] Swedenborg ?s hell is the most terrible I know of. 4. Sunday. [Charles] Damoreau came up and stayed an hour. I to Mr [Joseph] Greatbatch ?s [174 Mulberry St.] and there dined with them [Mary Ann Greatbatch, Edward Greatbatch, and Fred Greatbatch], and stayed till 6 in the evening. I always feel homelike, in some degree there. They are good people. To Vesey Street, and had a pleasant, chatty evening with Damoreau and his wife [Beatrice Damoreau]. 5. Monday. Up town to [William] Levisons, a slight snow storm falling. Down by the third Avenue Cars, called at the Picayune Office, (where sat silly-faced [Thad] Glover, looking cold, and reading a Tit
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