A box has come from home for me. Taking advantage of this
good fortune and a full larder, have asked Mrs. Davis to dine with me. Wade
Hampton sent me a basket of game. We had Mrs. Davis and Mr. and Mrs. Preston.
After dinner we walked to the church to see the Freeland-Lewis wedding. Mr.
Preston had Mrs. Davis on his arm. My husband and Mrs. Preston, and Burton Harrison
and myself brought up the rear. Willie Allan joined us, and we had the pleasure
of waiting one good hour. Then the beautiful Maria, loveliest of brides, sailed
in on her father's arm, and Major John Coxe Lewis followed with Mrs. Freeland.
After the ceremony such a kissing was there up and down the aisle. The happy
bridegroom kissed wildly, and several girls complained, but he said: “How am I
to know Maria's kin whom I was to kiss? It is better to show too much affection
for one's new relations than too little.”
SOURCE: Mary Boykin Chesnut, Edited by Isabella D. Martin
and Myrta Lockett Avary, A Diary From Dixie, p. 264-5
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