Describes Lotty Kidder. Transcription: when she ?d throw her little head back, and laugh outright, unrestrainedly, with [word crossed out] her pretty mouth & white teeth, ? pearls set in coral. I wish I could draw Lotty Kidder ?s face. She looks best in profile. It is not regularly beautiful, ? one might cavil at it, ? her complexion is not clear, ? slightly [word crossed out] freckled; ? but how infinitely more fascinating than a hundred faultless beauties. Let me see whether I can sketch her in pen and ink detail. Forehead, neither too high nor low, nose ? decidedly nez retrousee pret
Describes Lotty Kidder. Transcription: when she ?d throw her little head back, and laugh outright, unrestrainedly, with [word crossed out] her pretty mouth & white teeth, ? pearls set in coral. I wish I could draw Lotty Kidder ?s face. She looks best in profile. It is not regularly beautiful, ? one might cavil at it, ? her complexion is not clear, ? slightly [word crossed out] freckled; ? but how infinitely more fascinating than a hundred faultless beauties. Let me see whether I can sketch her in pen and ink detail. Forehead, neither too high nor low, nose ? decidedly nez retrousee pretty enough; mouth ? delicious. Ah! the sweet upward [word crossed out] curve of the upper lip, the round ripe beauty of the lower. And her chin is [words crossed out] singularly beautiful. Eyes, bright, [word crossed out] hazel and lustrous with animation, fringed by delectable black eyelashes, fine as drawn by a pencil, and involuntarily suggestive of eastern pencilled eyebrowed [word crossed out] beauties. Cheeks soft and rounded ? most deliciously so when she smiles or laughs. [words crossed out] This face framed by a maze of jetty curls, was beside me all that pleasant evening! Alas [words crossed out] that this delectable little creature should be ? as in sober sooth she is ? a little snob! [word crossed out] Vain, fickle in liking & disliking ? pettish and petty ? I ?ll write no further against her ? Title: Thomas Butler Gunn Diaries: Volume 5, page 49, September 22, 1852 . 22 September 1852. Gunn, Thomas Butler, 1826-1903
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