BOSTON, June 25, 1854. MY DEAR SIR, — Why should the Attorney-General stay at home while all the rest of the cabinet are traveling? I hear...

The President and exPresidents of Harvard College met at Whipple's by my request, to be photographed together for the college library. ...

Commencement. At Cambridge at 8 in president's room. Corporation there. We tried on the President's new cap. At ten we went to the ...

Inauguration of president at Cambridge. Heavy rain in morning. Went to Cambridge in the saddle; got to Boston from there at half past nine,...

Went to see F. E. Parker and asked him if he would be president of Harvard College if he were asked. He was very much surprised; said it se...