Diary of Edward Bates, June 23, 1859

Today attended some of the closing exercises of the students of Washington University.

Barton will leave us tomorrow morning. He has been down some days transacting business i. a. he has bought a carriage and pair of horses and a negro woman.

Fleming and wife and child are here tonight — Also Dick⁴ and Dick Woodson⁵ —

No news from Matilda⁶ lately. She is on a visit to Louisiana and Han[n]ibal, having gone up with her cousin Julia Coalter.⁷

Note. Gave Coalter⁸ a watch today — the first he has ever owned. Bo[ugh]t. of Crane & Jones, for $35.

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⁴ Mr. Bates's fourth son. See supra, " Introduction."

⁵ Son of a cousin of Mr. Bates.

⁶ Mr. Bates's younger daughter. See loc. cit.

⁷ A niece of Mrs. Bates who later married Mr. Davis of Pike County.

⁸ John Coalter Bates, fifth of Mr. Bates's living sons, who served in the Army with distinction. 1861-1906. See loc. tit.

SOURCE: Howard K. Beale, Editor, Annual Report of The American Historical Association For The Year 1930, Vol. 4, The Diary Of Edward Bates, p. 26