A set of diaries containing brief daily entries for the years 1861-1908, with volumes missing for 1862, 1874, 1877, 1891, 1902, and 1906. The entries, the early ones of which are in Latin, sketch Edwin Delos Coe's career at the University of Wisconsin and in the army, as a student of law at Watertown and Janesville, his connection with the Badger Oil Company at Bothwell, Canada, and with several Wisconsin newspapers, including the Whitewater Register, as chief clerk of the Wisconsin Assembly in 1882 and 1885-1889, and as pension agent in Milwaukee, 1897-1908. The diaries note also his connections with local and state Republican organizations, his correspondence, and educational, farm, and press associations to which he belonged.
