Mentions that Lotty Kidder has gotten back together with her estranged husband, John Whytal. Transcription: [bur]ning and baby in cradle. Dined with them [Mr. and Mrs. Hammett] & the rest of the habitants of the mansion in fine style upstairs, then after half an hour in another apartment talking (anent my transferring on to wood the portrait of a little girl), with a man & wife, the latter being about to publish & write a memoir of this dead, adopted child,) down stairs again. Looking over divers productions of Hammetts, in the ?ǣKnickerbocker, ? Literary World, Spirit of the Times &c, ? then
Mentions that Lotty Kidder has gotten back together with her estranged husband, John Whytal. Transcription: [bur]ning and baby in cradle. Dined with them [Mr. and Mrs. Hammett] & the rest of the habitants of the mansion in fine style upstairs, then after half an hour in another apartment talking (anent my transferring on to wood the portrait of a little girl), with a man & wife, the latter being about to publish & write a memoir of this dead, adopted child,) down stairs again. Looking over divers productions of Hammetts, in the ?ǣKnickerbocker, ? Literary World, Spirit of the Times &c, ? then about 4, left, crossed to New York, (icy cold day), & to room, meditatively on the snug house I had quitted. My fire was out; sat awhile, then to [Frank] Royals. He and his wife going out, but insisted on my staying to sup with Bush, with which he & the juvenile ?s seemed to be marvellously well content. Stayed till 9 or so, called at Office, found [Alfred] Waud reading aloud to [Alfred] Swinton, who was engraving by Camp-light; then out again, to Beach Street. Mrs [Rebecca] Kidder & some-others there, but the latter soon left. Lotty [Kidder] has joined her husband [John Whytal] again, and returns to the stage to-morrow night, ? the ?ǣNational ?! ?ǣWith hey ho! The Wind & the Rain! ? Talking awhile with Mrs K & a lively little widow Title: Thomas Butler Gunn Diaries: Volume 5, page 94, November 21, 1852 . 21 November 1852. Gunn, Thomas Butler, 1826-1903
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