[Boston—Wednesday, 18 June 1873]
Wednesday. Lizzy goes daily to her studio. I gather flowers daily about ½ past 6 A.M.
Anne Whitney, through J’s efforts and her own good statue of Saml Adams has received the order from Government. We are very joyous thereat.
Met Mr. Emerson at the Athenæum. Our first meeting since his arrival from Europe. He asked me at once about the progress of work for the higher education of women—said the Law school of the Boston College was to be thrown open to them. I told him I thought equal advantages but separate schools were needed, on the ground of deflexions from the right line of study being caused by young people who possessed natural affinities being brought too easily into relations. He asked if I had presented that view to Mrs Howe. He spoke of Ellen, who is such a fine traveler and who kept him up to the mark in all things. “It is a good thing to have a good daughter” he said.
