In a letter to A. K. Gibson of July 1, 1915, Guiney says:
    No, dear Sarah Jewett, whom I knew well, was never anything but a pro-Catholic.  She had a natural love for the Faith, and was particularly attracted, as some of her stories show, to the character of the Catholic Irish, the simple devout peasant stock.  She spent almost a year once among them at Bantry Bay.

[So far as has been determined, Guiney is incorrect about Jewett's long stay in Ireland.]