Journal and everyday book, 1837 Aug. 7-1839 Aug. 7.

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Journal and everyday book, 1837 Aug. 7-1839 Aug. 7.

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The journal from Brown's nineteenth and twentieth years, intended as a record of his "family and personal adventures, afflictions, pleasures, pains, trials, troubles, vexations and vicissitudes." Brown came to Boston from the family farm in Concord and found work as a clerk in dry goods retailing and wholesaling. He regularly attended Sunday meeting at the West Unitarian Church, where Cyrus Augustus Bartol was minister, and the Thursday evening lectures at the Boston Lyceum. The lectures are described in detail and include talks by William Ellery Channing, Oliver Wendell Holmes, George Ripley, George Catlin on his Indian portraits (1838 Aug.), James Silk Buckingham on Egypt (1838 Oct.), Howard Malcolm on Burma (1839 Jan.) and Horace Mann on education (1839 March). Other notable entries describe the arrival in Boston (1837 Oct.) of a large party of Sac, Fox and Sioux Indians, a lecture by the Misses GrimkeĢ on slavery at the Odeon (1838 April), excitement over the arrival in N.Y. of the "Great Western", the boundary dispute in Maine with the British government (1839 Feb.), Lowell Mason's "singing school", and an invitation to dine with John Davis (1839 July). Brown prefaces volume one of his journal with an inventory of his clothing and personal possessions, with their cost.

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Mann, Horace, 1796-1859

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Horace Mann was an educator and a statesman who greatly advanced the cause of universal, free, non-sectarian public schools. Mann also advocated temperance, abolition, hospitals for the mentally ill, and women's rights. From the description of Horace Mann Letter, 1858. (University of the Pacific). WorldCat record id: 213372958 Horace Mann, "Father of our Public Schools," was born in Franklin, Massachusetts on May 4, 1796. His family was poor and his father di...