For the Egyptians shall help in vain, and to no purpose; therefore have I cried concerning this, their strength is to sit still. Isaiah 30.7.
But the liberal deviseth liberal things; and by liberal things shall he stand.
32.8.
I saw Venus Morning star— Orion, Sirius, and Procyon, but the Sun rose
beclouded— One of the hottest of Summer days succeeded with the
mitigation of a strong western breeze— My
Son went into Boston in the train of Cars from South
Braintree starting from the Quincy station at 7.40. A.M. I went with my
Granddaughter Mary-Louisa in the
Old Colony train from Plymouth which started from that town at 7.30—
A.M. and should have reached the Quincy station at 9. but was twenty
minutes belated— We passed the Neponset, Dorchester, and Savin Hill
stations, and reached the depot in Boston opposite the United States
Hotel at 10 minutes before 10. Mr Emmons was with us in the
Cars— I walked with Mary Louisa to the riding School in Franklin Street
where she was to take her lesson, and leaving her there proceeded to the
counting house of Abbot and
Amos Lawrence in Milk Street. I found Mr Abbott Lawrence there, and agreed to go
with him next Wednesday to the Meeting of the Committee of the board of
Overseers of Harvard University on the Observatory to Cambridge— The
Meeting is to be at half past 2. P.M at University hall, where they are
invited to dine and to take the afternoon for examining the Observatory—
I agreed to go into Mr Lawrence’s house in
Boston by One O’Clock P.M. and at half past one to go with him in his
Carriage to Cambridge, and to return with him to Boston in time to take
the Evening train of Old Colony railroad Cars for South Braintree to be
landed at the Quincy station. I had no conversation with Mr. Lawrence upon politics, on which our
views no longer harmonize— They have been disappointed in not receiving
the large Frauenhofer
Refractor from Munich, which was to have been delivered in Cambridge
last June when it would have been duty free— They now only hope to
receive it before the first of next December, after which it must come
charged with an import duty of between five and six thousand dollars—
From Mr Lawrence’s counting room I went to
my Son’s office, where I met Mr Henry Wilson of Natick and
Mr George
Odiorne, who did not speak to me of the republication of
my Letters on Antimasonry— I purchased a small Night lamp and lantern—
Precisely at Noon, I met my son and Granddaughter at the Old Colony
Railroad depot, and came out in 27 minutes to Quincy.— The Barouche and
Albert Putnam were in waiting
and took us home. I received a curious Letter from Dutee J. Pearce— After dinner I rode
with my two
daughters and little Mary round through Braintree— Charles and his wife here
this Evening— Summer heat with a refreshing breeze.