Diaries, 1851 October 1-1854 November 5.

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Burgess, Henry H. Diaries, 1851 October 1-1854 November 5.

Diaries, 1851 October 1-1854 November 5.

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Two personal journals (1851-1852 and 1853-1854) that reveal the daily activity of a young, working Bostonian. Each entry contains meteorological observations, daily happenings and activities Burgess participated in. Activities such as attending religious and social lectures, drawing classes, elocution classes, travel to Nahant, Kingston, Rhode Island and Plymouth, and visits from friends. Mercantile Library Association and Mechanic Apprentices' Library Association meetings were the primary focus of the author's life at this time. Highlighted lecturers include: Theordore Parker, Henry David Thoreau, and Reverend George Richards. Lecture topics include: phrenology, travel abroad, electromagnetism, the dignity of labor, and Socrates. Some Boston occurrances such as fires, three suicides, Daniel Webster's death, a riot, court decisions and martial law in Boston are included in the journals. A watercolor depicting a scene of Native Americans giving medicinal plants to whites, to be made into patent medicines is tipped into the first volume.

2 v. : col. ill. ; 21 cm.

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