288 A DECADE OF WORK AT HOME.  [1842, 
I am to board at an adjacent house, to which I have 
access by a private gate through the garden. The latter 
house belongs to Mrs. Peck (widow of my predeces- 
sor), who boards there, and who I see has bestirred 
herself to contrive and effect this arrangement. I am 
to take possession next Monday. Meanwhile I am 
Mr. Greene’s guest here, where I have the house for 
the most part to myself. I arrived here Friday morn- 
ing, just in time to miss the president, who had just 
started for Portland, and has not yet returned. I 
have seen Bigelow, Emerson,! ete., and have been look- 
ing about among the libraries here, and endeavoring 
to arrange matters so as to procure just, and only such, 
books for the college as are wanting. I am pleased 
to find a complete copy of * Linnea” at the library of 
the American Academy. 
I passed last Sunday all alone in Greene’s house. 
Mr. Emerson met me coming from Park Street 
Church, and on telling him that I was of Orthodox 
faith, he said he was very glad of it, although not 
altogether of that way himself. 
have been only twice to Cambridge, whence I 
have just returned, and where you may address your 
letters. But I can do little there until the president 
returns, by which time, however, I must trust to have 
my list of books ready. I have just written to Mr. 
Wiley to send on my boxes, and hope next week to 
get nearly in working order. I now think of remain- 
ing here (studying Composite, ete.) through the month 
of August, and then visiting Mt. Washington, if I can 
get money and a companion (I shall ask Oakes), and 
in September going (via New York?) to western New 
1 George B. Emerson, 1797-1881 ; an eminent teacher in Boston, 
Mass. ; author of Trees and Shrubs of Massachusetts. 
