Very cold and windy. Rode an hour and a half. Called at the
United States Hotel on Captain John Brown, the old Kansas hero. Found Governor
Robinson of Kansas at the Emigrant Aid rooms. Spent most of the forenoon with
him. He has resigned his office, and the plan is to give Governor Geary, now a
United States official, the popular vote, and so help on the “Free State”
movement. Bought a fur coat for Robinson. Met Captain Brown; he is trying to
raise a company to be ready in any emergency that may arise in Kansas. He looks
a little thinner than when he went to Kansas with his sons. He fought the
Missourians at Osawatomie in such a style as struck terror into the whole body
of marauders. To Professor Longfellow's in Cambridge with my wife and Mary. A
party mostly of young people. Played whist with Mr. Nathan Appleton, Mrs.
Lothrop Motley, and Sarah. Home at half past ten, very cold. Deep drifts on the
cross roads, Cambridge.
SOURCE: William Lawrence, Life of Amos A. Lawrence:
With Extracts from His Diary and Correspondence, p. 123-4
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