Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1865, by M. Lowell Putnam, in the Clerk's Office of the District Court for the District of Massachusetts.
"Yet once more, O ye laurels, and once more,
Ye myrtles brown, with ivy never sere,
I come to pluck your berries harsh and crude,
And with forced fingers rude
Shatter your leaves before the mellowing year."
FIFTEEN DAYS—CONTENTS.
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| Good-Friday Evening, April 5, 1844 | [1] |
| Saturday Evening, April 6, 1844 | [19] |
| Sunday, April 7, 1844 | [44] |
| Monday, April 8, 1844 | [81] |
| Tuesday, April 9, 1844 | [91] |
| Wednesday, April 10, 1844 | [103] |
| Thursday, April 11, 1844 | [119] |
| Friday, April 12, 1844 | [138] |
| Saturday, April 13, 1844 | [150] |
| Sunday Morning, April 14, 1844 | [172] |
| Monday, April 15, 1844 | [190] |
| Tuesday, April 16, 1844 | [213] |
| Wednesday, April 17, 1844 | [260] |
| Thursday, April 18, 1844 | [272] |
| Friday Night, April 19 | [279] |
Good-Friday Evening, April 5, 1844.
No entry in my journal since the twenty-eighth of March. Yet these seven silent days have a richer history than any that have arrived, with their exactions or their gifts, since those liberal ones of two springs ago came to endow me with your friendship.
Easy to tread and pleasant to look back upon is the level plain of our life, uniform, yet diversified, familiar, yet always new; but, from time to time, we find ourselves on little sunny heights from which the way we have traversed shows yet fairer than we knew it, and that which we are to take invites with more cheerful promise.