Ralph Waldo Emerson’s diary, 1852

October

1. October 1852

   Mr, S. S. Prentiss, of New Orleans, first established a new doctrine in Western courts, this, namely, that the party attacked, in a per- sonal conflict, only knows…

2. 25 October 1852

   At Plymouth. I saw the beach under a fine splashing surf. A boy told me he shot all kinds of fowl there, and last night " old squaws," but there was such a sea on…