Regarding an alleged attempt by Fanny Fern to seduce Jesse Haney. Transcription: [connu]bial intercourse, both before and behind Jim [Parton]'s back. When once Ed. Wells said carelessly he 'wasn't fit for anything' she [Fanny Fern] rejoined by some such remark as: then she wouldn't have him for a bedfellow, or a husband, &c. Wells stayed away from the house for two or three weeks, inconsequence. Of course Jim knows her accusation against his friend from sh schooldays to be a lie: hence his expressions of a wish that Fanny might see them together in Washington Square. The woman's behavior alon
Regarding an alleged attempt by Fanny Fern to seduce Jesse Haney. Transcription: [connu]bial intercourse, both before and behind Jim [Parton]'s back. When once Ed. Wells said carelessly he 'wasn't fit for anything' she [Fanny Fern] rejoined by some such remark as: then she wouldn't have him for a bedfellow, or a husband, &c. Wells stayed away from the house for two or three weeks, inconsequence. Of course Jim knows her accusation against his friend from sh schooldays to be a lie: hence his expressions of a wish that Fanny might see them together in Washington Square. The woman's behavior alone might prove this. She behaves in her wonted manner towards [Jesse] Haney for six months subsequent to the alleged damning attempt, they are the best friends in the world until the row about my 'Scalpel' article occurs, when ? rip! out flows the venom, like the flood of filth following the lance thrust of the Red Cross Knight through the beast Error, in [Edmund] Spenser. A couple of years ago I put down my involuntary retrospectory suspicions of her relations with the nauseous [Oliver] Dyer, suspicions which I subsequently scored out, as unbecoming my chronicling when visiting the house. I now find they had occurred simultaneously to Haney also. Dyer is that style of man that he would want It and she lustful, self willed, utterly unscrupulous, what should check her from gratifying at once her own bad passions and assuring herself, doubly Title: Thomas Butler Gunn Diaries: Volume 11, page 13, June 5, 1859 . 5 June 1859. Gunn, Thomas Butler, 1826-1903
Size: 1801px × 2775px
Photo credit: © The Picture Art Collection / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
Keywords:
