356 ‘ELIZABETH CARY 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: 
“T 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.” 
