356 ELIZABETH GARY AGASSIZ 



tercourse was a continual source of enjoyment to her in her 

 life as President of Radcliffe College. A few of the entries 

 in her diary at the time of Mrs. Whitman's death follow. 



Nahant, June 19, 1904- A note from the hospital 

 makes every one anxious about Sally Whitman. 



June 22. Bad news from Sally Whitman, dear, 

 dear Sally, is she going where all the mysteries are 

 solved the great secret? 



June 26. Sally Whitman died yesterday at the 

 hospital. How impossible it seems! And now no more 

 our "again," but dead silence. 



June 28. Yesterday the last farewells were said 

 to such a friend as is rarely found. 



Within a few days after the last entry Mrs. Agassiz 

 suffered a cerebral hemorrhage, which threatened serious 

 consequences. She remained at Nahant in the hands of 

 physicians and nurses until the end of September when 

 she came back to Quincy Street, after which she began 

 slowly to improve, but was obliged to lead the life of an 

 invalid for the greater part of a year and never regained 

 the vitality lost during the summer. When Agassiz House 

 was completed she was too feeble to attend the opening. 

 The following spring on May 13, she wrote in her diary: 

 "I hope Pauline will take me to the new Radcliffe Hall to- 

 morrow," and on May 14, "Yes Pauline came and took 

 me over the Hall named after me. We had a lovely morn- 

 ing together. It is a beautiful building, without and within. 

 Architecturally dignified and of fine lines and proportions; 

 within, fittings convenient and serviceable suited for the 

 purpose and meaning.*' 



