Regarding Jesse Haney's proposal of marriage to Sally Edwards and her rejection of it. Transcription: too much towards them. Knowing them from infancy, catering for their amusements, and being general factotum produced this. But when fresh faces came in, and different sorts of incense was offered on the girls' [Sally, Eliza, and Matty Edwards] altars, this was hardly politic. Though I sympathized keenly with [Jesse] Haney, more I suppose than he gave me credit for, on thinking it over I came to the conclusion that Sally's right. It's not well to let mi-lord ride over the course uncontested. A
Regarding Jesse Haney's proposal of marriage to Sally Edwards and her rejection of it. Transcription: too much towards them. Knowing them from infancy, catering for their amusements, and being general factotum produced this. But when fresh faces came in, and different sorts of incense was offered on the girls' [Sally, Eliza, and Matty Edwards] altars, this was hardly politic. Though I sympathized keenly with [Jesse] Haney, more I suppose than he gave me credit for, on thinking it over I came to the conclusion that Sally's right. It's not well to let mi-lord ride over the course uncontested. All of us are overprone to slight too easy winnings. I hope the girl will be his wife, and believe it yet. He was a good deal hit yesterday, hinted that he had got drunk ? unsentimental enough, but what many men do and will do for all time. Sally has come clearly out of the trial of rival wooers, I never knew a girl who got less damage to her nature from it. Nearly all of them sink amiability in it, that amiability which is as much a matter of youth and habit as a real characteristic. Haney says he introduced the other fellows that the girls might have choice. I had thought that with an addenda ? that their mother [Sarah Edwards] naturally wanted 'em to find husbands on this side of the American continent, to avoid their sisters' fate, transportation to California with that object. I told Haney I had suspected him of a wish not to have my company Title: Thomas Butler Gunn Diaries: Volume 11, page 124, October 26, 1859 . 26 October 1859. Gunn, Thomas Butler, 1826-1903
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