January 1828

Montaigne says he is sorry Brutus's treatise on Virtue is lost, because he would hear one.

In Concord, N. H., I visited the prison and went into the cells. At this season they shut up the convicts in these little granite chambers at about 4 o'clock p. m. and let them out about 7 o'clock A. M. — 15 dreadful hours.