Regarding his happiness when visiting the Edwards girls. Transcription: Matty [Edwards]. Found [Jesse] Haney in my room, just back from Philadelphia. To Edwards ? by 9 or half an hour earlier. Got to writing scraps of sense and nonsense with the girls, keeping up a brisk fire with all three of them. Presently Matty and Eliza [Edwards] sung at the piano. I mustn ?t go there so often. I ?m too happy there. I ?m getting to feel lonely when I stay away. [Jesse] Haney had a sort of explanation with Matty. She is more downright and simple-natured than the others; wants fair play and doesn ?t sh
Regarding his happiness when visiting the Edwards girls. Transcription: Matty [Edwards]. Found [Jesse] Haney in my room, just back from Philadelphia. To Edwards ? by 9 or half an hour earlier. Got to writing scraps of sense and nonsense with the girls, keeping up a brisk fire with all three of them. Presently Matty and Eliza [Edwards] sung at the piano. I mustn ?t go there so often. I ?m too happy there. I ?m getting to feel lonely when I stay away. [Jesse] Haney had a sort of explanation with Matty. She is more downright and simple-natured than the others; wants fair play and doesn ?t shrink from explanations, not thinking what they may lead to. Walked home with Haney, and for half an hour about the past midnight streets afterwards. 7. Wednesday. Down town by noon. Got my $5 at Courier Office, where I met Haney. To Pic, to Nic-nax office where I saw [Thomas] Dunn English. Met [Charles] Gayler, [James L.] Smith (of the Courier,) [Frank] Cahill, [] Shepherd and John Wood at Crook and Duff ?s. Up town with Shepherd. Mrs Lee, Mrs [Celina] Wall ?s sister at dinner. Working till midnight and past it, writing hard and once drawing. 8. Thursday. Writing and drawing till dinner. Haney up. Down town to Pic Office, returning with Cahill. (He wouldn ?t walk on the crowded side of the way, fearing meeting the Edwards girls.) He met their mother [Sarah Edwards] the other day and says he Title: Thomas Butler Gunn Diaries: Volume 11, page 110, September 6-8, 1859 . 6 September 1859. Gunn, Thomas Butler, 1826-1903
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