Ralph Waldo Emerson’s diary, 1848

In Halifax (England) Mr. Crossley employs in his carpet mills fifteen hundred operatives.

I TRACE, then, the peculiarities of English man- ners to their working climate ; their dense popu- lation ; the presence of an aristocracy or model class for…

Sea-line. As we see the human body or one of its limbs undraped, so here Nature shows us a limb of our planet in undress, and we see the nakedness of the sea -…

Duke of Cleveland's land extends from the point where we first entered it, coming from Darlington, toward Barnard Castle, twenty-three miles to High Force, where…

In the new Parliament House, great poverty of ornament, the ball and crown repeated tedi- ously all over the grand gate, near the Abbey, and Vivat Regina written…

The British Museum holds the relics of an- cient art, and the relics of ancient nature, in adja- cent chambers. It is alike impossible to reani- mate either.

Carlyle. Dined with John Forster, Esq., at Lincoln's Inn Fields, and found Carlyle and Dickens, and young Pringle. Forster, who has an obstreperous cordiality,…

The most important word the Age has given to the vocabulary is Blouse." It has not yet got into the Dictionary, and even in America for a year or two it has been of…

I heard Alboni sing last night in Cenerentola, and the 'Times today calls it the best of her triumphs. I found only the noble burst of voice beautiful, and the…

From Boulogne to Paris fifty -six leagues, seven and one-half mortal hours.

Mr. Owen invited Hillard ' and myself to in- spect the Hunterian (John Hunter) Museum, of which he is the Curator. Afterwards, he would carry us to Turner, the…

James Baker does not imagine that he is a rich man, yet he keeps from year to year that lordly park of his by Fairhaven Pond,' lying idly open to all comers,…

Yesterday, another walk with Ellery well worth commemoration, if that were possible; but no pen could write what we saw : it needs the pencils of all the painters…

The Whig party are what people would call first-rate in opposition, but not so good in gov- ernment. Perhaps they have not sufficient forti- tude. The same thing…

Directly on the dreadful calamity of young George Emerson's' death, comes to me one of my highest prosperities. I received Clough's poem ' at the bookstore, whilst…