Regarding an alleged attempt by Fanny Fern to seduce Jesse Haney. Transcription: bills on people which never were honored! 5. Sunday. Chores. [Bob] Gun & Tracy up, the former on business. Did a drawing on wood. Writing. Round to Houston St with results after tea, then to 16th. Out with [Jesse] Haney, in Washington Square which looked very summery. Here, two Sundays ago after I had left Jim [Parton] and Haney, they saw Fanny [Fern], Grace [Eldredge] and Mort [Thomson] walking together. 'I hope they see us!' Jim said, defiantly. There must have been a most infernal row subsequently at his home,
Regarding an alleged attempt by Fanny Fern to seduce Jesse Haney. Transcription: bills on people which never were honored! 5. Sunday. Chores. [Bob] Gun & Tracy up, the former on business. Did a drawing on wood. Writing. Round to Houston St with results after tea, then to 16th. Out with [Jesse] Haney, in Washington Square which looked very summery. Here, two Sundays ago after I had left Jim [Parton] and Haney, they saw Fanny [Fern], Grace [Eldredge] and Mort [Thomson] walking together. 'I hope they see us!' Jim said, defiantly. There must have been a most infernal row subsequently at his home, for with the exception of one evening at Edwards' he has not been accessible anywhere. Haney is distinctly outlawed and here ?s the whole reason. Fanny has played Portiphar ?s wife, accusing Haney to Jim of attempting ?. Furthermore she has declared that he boasted 'at his boarding-house' of being about to marry Grace. Latter, of course, a simple lie, the former with a back-ground of wickedness to it. When Jim was away down south, in accordance both with his and her request, Haney went over to Brooklyn repeatedly, and she put the climax on her common familiarities by the perpetration of two acts of downright invitation towards him, which he rebutted. Her false accusation doubtless grows out of a suspicion that he told Jim of the incident, is an attempt to take the wind out of his sails and inflare them with a hell-blast of jealousy. and suspicion. Now I Title: Thomas Butler Gunn Diaries: Volume 11, page 11, June 4-5, 1859 . 4 June 1859. Gunn, Thomas Butler, 1826-1903
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