New Year’s Day. God prosper the New Year to those I love. Church with Ellie and Johnny; an effective sermon by Higby. Thereafter we took a c...

With Ellie to the Artists’ “Reception” in Dodworth’s Rooms; a vast crowd. Discovered Mrs. D. C. Murray and Mrs. John Weeks, General Dix, Wen...

Walked uptown with George Anthon, who entertained me with the biography of his runaway cousin. Miss "Unadilla” Elmendorf, and incidents...

To Columbia College meeting, Lafayette Place, at two in the afternoon. . . . I moved that Lieber’s opening lecture of his present Law School...

House of Representatives not yet organized, no Speaker elected and government at a deadlock. Members spend their time during the interval be...

News today of a fearful tragedy at Lawrence, Massachusetts, one of the wholesale murders commonly known in newspaper literature as accident ...

Mr. Ruggles is quite ill at Lockport (Governor Hunt’s), so ill that Mrs. Ruggles and Miss Bostwick go thither tomorrow. He went to Buffalo, ...

Mr. Ruggles reported by telegraph “improving,” but not strong enough to travel. SOURCE: Allan Nevins and Milton Halset Thomas, Editors, Di...

Anxious about Mr. Ruggles at Lockport. A telegram from Jem, received just before dinnertime, announced that “the physicians thought” him imp...

Wolcott Gibbs called by appointment tonight. We microscopized energetically, and the performances terminated with a very modest supper of ch...