Describes Lotty Kidder's stories of her life. Transcription: About her two ?ǣHusbands. ? This wretched controversy was kept up for some time. Finally she [Charlotte Kidder] got [Arthur] Granville packed off to England, on the understanding that he must ?ǣdo something ? to keep himself. She is to write to him, he to her. There are many things in him she likes, but she never loved him, or anybody. [John] Wilder was the only man who had a claim on her, from gratitude. He loved her, but was too &c &c &c to demand &c. &c. He only came to see her two weeks in the year. Granville hadn ?t been faithf
Describes Lotty Kidder's stories of her life. Transcription: About her two ?ǣHusbands. ? This wretched controversy was kept up for some time. Finally she [Charlotte Kidder] got [Arthur] Granville packed off to England, on the understanding that he must ?ǣdo something ? to keep himself. She is to write to him, he to her. There are many things in him she likes, but she never loved him, or anybody. [John] Wilder was the only man who had a claim on her, from gratitude. He loved her, but was too &c &c &c to demand &c. &c. He only came to see her two weeks in the year. Granville hadn ?t been faithful to her: she had had to go to her father for medical advice for disease which she was ashamed to speak of to a physician. Granville professed to love her as much as ever, but drunkenness produced incontinence in him. Her whole married experience had been prostitution. She had found a big negress in her bed within a few days after her union with [John] Whytal. She always regarded him as a dog ? an animal. Now she was free. The slave (or slaves) she mortaged, or sold, I suppose through Wilder, she had taken for a debt ? money owed to her for her salary as an actress. She had to go to Savannah about it in a month or so, to complete the sale. Full of defiances Title: Thomas Butler Gunn Diaries: Volume 12, page 175, April 27, 1860 . 27 April 1860. Gunn, Thomas Butler, 1826-1903
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