Regarding the relationship between Jesse Haney and Sally Edwards. Transcription: of his [Jesse Haney's] opinion of her [Sally Edwards], searches about for reasons for the same, being altogether tossed about on a sea of incertitude, into from which he has taken refuge in the harbor of renunciation. Sally was sick, kept her bed for three days and more subsequently, [William] Blakeman attending on her. This prevented her from accompanying Haney, Mattie [Edwards] and myself to Mort Thomson's po 'versified lecture,' the particulars of which I'll shortly put down, as its delivery more or less influ
Regarding the relationship between Jesse Haney and Sally Edwards. Transcription: of his [Jesse Haney's] opinion of her [Sally Edwards], searches about for reasons for the same, being altogether tossed about on a sea of incertitude, into from which he has taken refuge in the harbor of renunciation. Sally was sick, kept her bed for three days and more subsequently, [William] Blakeman attending on her. This prevented her from accompanying Haney, Mattie [Edwards] and myself to Mort Thomson's po 'versified lecture,' the particulars of which I'll shortly put down, as its delivery more or less influenced certain of the listeners. Sally does not love Haney I am sure, albeit her consciousness of his intellectual superiority to others of her wooers, his long intimacy and extreme (though not altogether unselfish) regard for the family might have induced his aff acceptation, but for her fear that his affection would be exacting, would demand more than she can give in return. There she is right enough. Had he not played sulky anent our Fourth of July business and the Grafton Centre ruralizing, had she acted simply from girlish instincts, it would have been a match. But his knowing them [Sally, Matty, and Eliza Edwards] from childhood added to a natural habit of playing pedagogue (which I've heard him admit) combined with Sally's reading [William Makepeace] Thackeray, her habits of reflection, convincing her that it might be a very real responsible business, this of marrying, Title: Thomas Butler Gunn Diaries: Volume 11, page 131, November 13, 1859 . 13 November 1859. Gunn, Thomas Butler, 1826-1903
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