Aug. 3, ’92

Dear Diary: — Darling, darling, forgive me for not writing to you for so long. I have been very busy all this vacation and I suppose I owe you an account of it all.

… Now comes the strangest part of my story. Dolly [1] is going to be married in four weeks! Gustav vene, vidi, vici — Dolly! I believe she loved him all along but wouldn’t let on or how could she make up her mind to marry him so quick! She used to be so defiant and irritable when even his name was mentioned and now since he has come she is as quiet as a lamb — queer — queer — queer — will wonders never cease? I ask myself morning noon and night. How she used to scold me when I sat in with Emil alone in the parlor and boast about what she would do and now she is up to that trick herself. Just think Cousin Bull [2] is going to marry Emilia [3] my oldest scholar and there is going to be a double wedding. I am on the verge of distraction when I think of it all. …

Sept. 7, 1892.

Dear Diary: — The wedding is over and done with and Dolly is now Mrs. Pludeman. We had quite a few friends invited and I had to work like a trooper. So did Emil. Everything passed off very nicely with only a small chivari. …

Source: Emma Eberlein’s diary, as transcribed by Ernie Kriewaldt.

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[1] Nathalie Eberlein, daughter of John Frederick Eberlein and Catherine Goerner
[2] Wilhelm Schenk, son of Catherine Goerner’s sister Maria Barbara
[3] Ameilia Wilhemina Pludeman, sister of Gus Pludeman