[Rome—Thursday, 15 March 1860]

Thursday 15th Looked over Macpherson’s photographs. Charming party at Miss Cushman’s in the evening. She sang “Mary, go and call the cattle home” and our blood ran cold with the nearness and loneness of this sorrow.


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