Regarding James Morris flirting with Miss Maguire and Miss Pettit at his boarding house. Transcription: captious objection to Mrs [Sarah] Edwards way of wearing her hair! He [James Morris] did the same, with an altogether objectionable an and unendurable degree of presumption, about Eliza [Edwards]. I thought of the girl ?s sweet, clear face and let out. Less than a week, ago, too, he goes and wants to take her to the opera, saying devil a word about it to me until I had learnt the rejection of the proposed at the house. I told him that they girls [Eliza, Matty, and Sally Edwards] weren ?t ac
Regarding James Morris flirting with Miss Maguire and Miss Pettit at his boarding house. Transcription: captious objection to Mrs [Sarah] Edwards way of wearing her hair! He [James Morris] did the same, with an altogether objectionable an and unendurable degree of presumption, about Eliza [Edwards]. I thought of the girl ?s sweet, clear face and let out. Less than a week, ago, too, he goes and wants to take her to the opera, saying devil a word about it to me until I had learnt the rejection of the proposed at the house. I told him that they girls [Eliza, Matty, and Sally Edwards] weren ?t accustomed to such save with old friends and he wasn ?t one. Good intentioned no doubt, but [Jesse] Haney and I object to having the fatherly, confidential, friendly, amiable business done with any of these girls, nor are they the sort to suffer it. He was not justified in this advance, on the strength of a gratuitous opera-ticket which he got from the Courier, indirectly through Haney and my positions ? on it. I took the girls ? tickets tother night, without throwing my company in. Morris has been doing a little of the amiable business with Miss [Sarah Louise] Maguire, as with Lizzie Petit. Latter ?s fair game, enough and won ?t get any hurt from it, but t ?other little girl is a little serious and sad about it, hopes, I can see, that something may come of it. She got jealous about his presumed going to see Lizzie. One wet night, when Morris and Billington were going to the theatre, I talking with the girls in the parlor, Title: Thomas Butler Gunn Diaries: Volume 11, page 156, November 29, 1859 . 29 November 1859. Gunn, Thomas Butler, 1826-1903
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