[Boston—Friday, 27 September 1872]

Friday 26 [sic]. Mr. Emerson came in at 2 P.M. to lunch. He is talking of going out to Europe with Ellen to pass the winter in Egypt. Edward his son is not well and is alone in Germany.

J. asked him where he had been staying. “At Naushon that sink of luxury” was the reply. Talking of France, he said France had no present only a past and a future. We talked somewhat of poetry by women H.H. being the key note. “Joy” “Thought” Ariadne he liked especially by her. Julia Howe had written myriads of verses and astonishingly few which would rival John Brown. Weave no more silks, My Flag, and the story is told—of Mrs Hemans there are still many which survive and must always live.

Mrs Stowe told us in her quiet burning tragedy of manner of the barn on their place near Cincinnati where her little children found 4 black men sleeping in the hay one day. She told them the dreadful story of their sufferings and though they were but 5 and 6 years old they never opened their lips about what they had discovered.


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