Regarding the literary expectations of James Morris. Transcription: grow. He [Edward Welles] is after Sally [Edwards] and she knows it. I don ?t know that [Jesse] Haney didn ?t suspect me of having some little game of my own pertinent to the girls. When I told him emphatically though incidentally the contrary he said he wished he had known etc. This he repeated more than once. Men are seldom generous and above board in love. [James] Morris has been doing the amiable with little Miss [Sarah Louise] Maguire, who has also grown mighty friendly with me. They have confabs on the stairs or the open
Regarding the literary expectations of James Morris. Transcription: grow. He [Edward Welles] is after Sally [Edwards] and she knows it. I don ?t know that [Jesse] Haney didn ?t suspect me of having some little game of my own pertinent to the girls. When I told him emphatically though incidentally the contrary he said he wished he had known etc. This he repeated more than once. Men are seldom generous and above board in love. [James] Morris has been doing the amiable with little Miss [Sarah Louise] Maguire, who has also grown mighty friendly with me. They have confabs on the stairs or the open space from which we emerge into our attics. This Sunday afternoon I left ?em sitting on a big trunk, reading out of one book. Or rather Morris was doing the elocutionary. Morris has been doing sub-editor on a paper just now burst up. He is very amiable and kindly, but captions and common-place, will make piddling puns, and has an extremely good opinion of himself. I admire especially his expecting, as it were, that things should be made easy for him in the rough and tumble of New York journalism. He must be introduced here, mentioned there and all forsooth on the strength of certain K. N. Pepper ?ǣpomes, ? two thirds of the merits of which consisted in bad spelling and oddity. (Well said old Johnson ?ǣNothing odd is permanently popular. ?) What popularity they had died out long ago, was swamped by the herd of imitators. Anon, when my Courier articles appeared, Morris Title: Thomas Butler Gunn Diaries: Volume 11, page 115, September 18, 1859 . 18 September 1859. Gunn, Thomas Butler, 1826-1903
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