Ralph Waldo Emerson’s diary, 1864

At the dinner given the other night, Febru- ary 4, at the Union Club to General Burnside, after much talk of the accounts of our several battles given by the…

Yesterday at the Club with Cabot, Ward, Holmes, Lowell, Judge H oar, Appleton, H owe. Woodman, Forbes, Whipple, with General Bar- low,' and Mr. Howe, of Nova…

At the Club, where was Agassiz just returned from his lecturing tour, having created a Nat- ural History Society in Chicago, where four thousand five hundred…

Diplomatic. Lord Hervey affirms that, " How- ever incredible, it is literally true, that, when Queen Caroline (of George II) was dying, she advised the king to…

School Committee. Examined Miss E. Skinner, Miss Laura Button," Miss Tidd, Miss E. Brown, Miss Abby Brown.

Yesterday the Saturday Club met to keep the birthnight of Shakspeare, at the end of the third century. We met at the Revere House, at 4 o'clock P.M. Members of the…

I have more enjoyed, in the last hours of finishing a chapter, the insight which has come to me of how the truths really stand, than I suf- fered from seeing in…

Yesterday with Ellery walked through " Becky Stow's Hole,"' dry-shod, hitherto a feat for a muskrat alone. The sky and air and autumn woods in their early best.…