[Boston—Monday, 14 January 1867]

Monday morning we were out bright and early soon after nine o’clock, shopping,—work I detest for it sets me thinking about my “roba” until life seems made up of threads and patches however went home and made bold to patch up my sonnet on Mrs Browning’s bust which is but a second-rate affair the sonnet not the bust after all—Ah! “the manna was not good after sun-rising”!!

In the evening old Mr Dana, now 80 & his daughter Charlotte came in. They were both well and the night frosty but moonlighted. He was full of anecdote and geniality. He told us of his son Richard’s Hennrietta a little thing of 12 or thereabout who was at a little tea party at Longfellow’s the other night. There were but nine little girls at table so when the host joined them he said “oh here we have the nine muses”—“and Apollo” rejoined little Henrietta. She is the youngest of Richard’s children & the cleverest. The old man & his daughter go to the Quintette Club concerts and it is one of their chief pleasures.


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