[Manchester—Friday, 6 September 1872]
Friday we passed at Nahant. The day was cool and lovely. We brought Lizzy back with us. Saw Mr. Longfellow who showed me a book Mr. Sumner had given him. In it was an old engraving from a painting by Giulio Clovio of the moon in which Dante was walking with his companion. He said it was always most impressive to him. He knew it in the original—also the same in a huge volume at Cambridge where the finest pages of the finest illuminated manuscripts are copied.
We went and came with Mrs Wistar as far as Beverly.
