Regarding Jesse Haney's proposal of marriage to Sally Edwards and her rejection of it. Transcription: at Grafton Centre, either under the impression that I had some venture of my own with respect to the girls [Sally, Matty, and Eliza Edwards], or as an inconvenient looker on at his [Jesse Haney's] felicity. He denied the truth of it. Altogether he rather frightened the girls up there, I think, and that may have produced an impression on Sally. She thinks. If she do accept him hereafter he'll be none the worse husband for this rejection. Though the affair really cost me a miserable day, from s
Regarding Jesse Haney's proposal of marriage to Sally Edwards and her rejection of it. Transcription: at Grafton Centre, either under the impression that I had some venture of my own with respect to the girls [Sally, Matty, and Eliza Edwards], or as an inconvenient looker on at his [Jesse Haney's] felicity. He denied the truth of it. Altogether he rather frightened the girls up there, I think, and that may have produced an impression on Sally. She thinks. If she do accept him hereafter he'll be none the worse husband for this rejection. Though the affair really cost me a miserable day, from sheer sympathy. / November 13. Sunday night. No possibility of steady diarizing as heretofore. I return from [] Chapins of a chill windy night, following a rainy day, instead of according to my usual custom, dropping in at the Edwards'. I sat in their pew, alone; the church was thinly attended. The two preceding Sunday nights I spent elsewhere, the latest of Edwards' entirely, as Jim Parton was there (I had seen little of him, of late) the other in my own cock-loft, with Hitchings, just returned from his journey to the Rocky Mountains. [Charles] Damoreau, [John] Ware, [Frank] Cahill, [James] Morris and Billington were present, the last four intermittently. I think I've not chronicled Damoreau's reappearance in New York as yet, so here's to dispose of that item, then to others. Charley turned up one evening, with an 'en- Title: Thomas Butler Gunn Diaries: Volume 11, page 125, October 26-November 13, 1859 . 26 October 1859. Gunn, Thomas Butler, 1826-1903
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