[Boston—Monday, 4 December 1865]
Monday. A pale white mist from the sea with a low soft wind.
Louise’s baby was christened, he weighed 22 pounds and was as much as the father could carry. Dr Gannett’s service was most impressive.
Club at Mrs Andrews. Mrs Howe read a clever vulgar salutatory at which every body laughed outwardly and were ashamed inwardly. She talked of our senator & representative as “chunchy Hooper & Grim Sumner.”
Dr Holmes read exquisitely “To Canaan” and Willson’s poem the “Old Color Sergeant.”
