Charlestown, Jefferson County, Va., Nov. 8, 1859. Mrs. Rebecca B. Spring. My Dear Friend , — When you get home, please enclose this ...

Dec. 9, 1859. My Dear Emerson , — Mr. Apthorp leaves me a corner of his paper, which I am only too glad to fill with a word or two of g...

Yesterday, the Fifty-Fourth Regiment of colored troops marched through Boston, on its return from the war, and was disbanded. Ah, could we ...

On this day of Thanksgiving, while thanking God for all his other gifts, let us thank him most of all for good men — men loving justice, tr...

New York , April 4, 1865. What good news! These things seem to come as apples fall when they are ripe; we pull at them in spring and su...

Washington , June 29,1864. I came to this city last Friday, preached in the Capitol on Sunday, and have been seeing a number of person...

June 18, 1864. ... Do you remember David W. Norton, who joined our church eight years ago, and afterwards went to Chicago? He became ma...

Jamaica Plain , September 5, 1863. H. J. H. and A. C. H. came here yesterday, — the former to go back to college, the latter to the Hig...

Preach New Year's sermon on the proclamation. Afternoon, Lord's Supper. Leave for Washington at 11.10. SOURCE: Edwin Everett...

Tom, Lilian and I leave [Philadelphia] for Washington at 11.35. SOURCE: Edwin Everett Hale, Editor,  James Freeman Clarke: Autobiography...

To the Capitol; President's levee. Call on Mr. Sam. Hooper, dine with Judge Thomas. 1 _______________ 1 Hon. Benjamin F. Thomas, ...

Preach in the Senate Chamber; good congregation. Lilian and I drive with Mrs. S. Hooper to the contraband camp. Dine at Mr. Hooper's wi...

Smithsonian; Sanitary; Capitol; Senate, House, and Library; Long Bridge. SOURCE: Edwin Everett Hale, Editor,  James Freeman Clarke: ...

Carriage with Henry Huidekoper and Colonel and Mrs. Ashurst to Arlington Heights, and to Colonel Wells' camp at Alexandria. SOURCE:...

President Lincoln's proclamation, 1 freeing the slaves. Tremont Temple; I speak. Tea at Mrs. Ellis Gray Loring's. 2 Evening, go t...

Depart for Washington. Meet Governor and Mrs. Andrew at New Haven. SOURCE: Edwin Everett Hale, Editor,  James Freeman Clarke: Autobiogra...

To Philadelphia with Governor Andrew, Colonel Howe, and Colonel Ritchie. SOURCE: Edwin Everett Hale, Editor,  James Freeman Clarke: Auto...

Visit the Capitol with William H. Changing. SOURCE: Edwin Everett Hale, Editor,  James Freeman Clarke: Autobiography, Diary and Corr...

Call upon Abraham Lincoln. SOURCE: Edwin Everett Hale, Editor,  James Freeman Clarke: Autobiography, Diary and Correspondence , p. 2...

Call upon President Lincoln; hear William Channing preach; walk to Fort Albany to preach to the Sixteenth Massachusetts. SOURCE: Edwin ...