[Manchester—Sunday, 8 September 1867]
Sunday. Clear and brilliant weather—a strong west wind blowing. Alas! our last week of this untrammeled life—but I mean to take the best part of it home with me, the health and pure-mindedness which God plants among the trees for us.
I got interested in the Dana family. R.H. Dana Jr. is deeply involved in his own law case against Beach Lawrence who has attacked his edition of Wheaton’s International Law. This gives him great trouble. He appears so cast down that I fear he may lose his case which would damage his reputation—this—in addition to his lost time—for the work has not been a pecuniary success,—is the cause of much despondency naturally. He is seeing his vacation vanish before him in this way.
The sky over clouded again in the afternoon but I walked out near sunset at [sic] met dear J.
