Regarding the Edwards girls. Transcription: a gorgeous jacket for the Fatima of the coming ?ǣBarbazure or the Baffled Buffer of the Bosphorus ? (my title) ? one evening I say, Sally [Edwards] made some remark advising me to take ?ǣeasy things to understand ? to Matty [Edwards], the which had been provoked by any thing. [Jesse] Haney talks to Matty and Eliza [Edwards], most, I think with the former. He might perchance, like Romeo, drop a Rosaline for a Juliet, albeit he don ?t admit the probability now of his finding a wife in that family. Matty has a soft heart and the recent explanations a

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Regarding the Edwards girls. Transcription: a gorgeous jacket for the Fatima of the coming ?ǣBarbazure or the Baffled Buffer of the Bosphorus ? (my title) ? one evening I say, Sally [Edwards] made some remark advising me to take ?ǣeasy things to understand ? to Matty [Edwards], the which had been provoked by any thing. [Jesse] Haney talks to Matty and Eliza [Edwards], most, I think with the former. He might perchance, like Romeo, drop a Rosaline for a Juliet, albeit he don ?t admit the probability now of his finding a wife in that family. Matty has a soft heart and the recent explanations and half explanations have touched her gentler feelings, I think. She didn ?t know or think that grown men could care so much for the regards of ?ǣsilly girls ? and would make up for past slights. Now God bless all these girls! and bring them to happy anchorage in his own good time! How home-like does the pleasant basement room look on these evenings! papa [George] Edwards smoking his pipe in his big arm chair, Mrs E [Sarah Edwards] coming down stairs from her long days work in the shop and taking her side of the fire-place, the girls at needle-work or the piano. Going away from such a picture through the chill streets to my boarding house attic, sets me thinking, thinking, thinking of Hannah [Bennett] and the home I may have some day. Haney shows kindly and bravely withal; has stood what must have been a Title: Thomas Butler Gunn Diaries: Volume 11, page 172, December 12, 1859 . 12 December 1859. Gunn, Thomas Butler, 1826-1903