MARCH 5, 1862 Thomas Butler Gunn Diaries: Volume 19, Page 14 [with Photographs], March 5, 1862 · WRSTL PLACE

Item sets: Digital Public History Class; Women of 18th and 19th Century America

Title: MARCH 5, 1862 Thomas Butler Gunn Diaries: Volume 19, Page 14 [with Photographs], March 5, 1862
Description: Describes a conversation with Matty and Eliza Edwards about a party they attended.

Transcription:

[two photographs] Martha Edwards.

[photograph] Eliza Edwards

at Amity St., then on to 745 [Broadway]. Matty, Eliza Ann [Edwards] and their father [George Edwards] present. [Jesse] Haney had called and departed. The girls were full of a party they had attended overnight, a "sociable" at the Browns and prattled pleasantly to me about the details — of the young men, how they were dressed, of their dancing and conversational abilities — how Mat "flirted" (according to Eliza's deposition) — how she "went to have a good time and had it," according to her own — how
Creator: Gunn, Thomas Butler, 1826-1903
Subject: Diaries; Women
Medium: Diary, Page
Format: Paper Materials, Photograph
Date: 1862-03-05
Source: Missouri Historical Society, Photos and Prints Department
Identifier: DX01971106

Media: THOMAS BUTLER GUNN DIARIES: VOLUME 19, PAGE 14 [WITH PHOTOGRAPHS], MARCH 5, 1862