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,^ etc., 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 " Linnsea " 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. 



I 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 Compositse, etc.) 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 



^ George B. Emerson, 1797-1881 ; an eminent teacher in Boston, 

 Mass. ; author of Trees and Shrubs of Massachusetts. 



