85
Quincy Monday 2. November 1846.
2. VI.
Fahrenheit
50 at Sunrise 6.33. Cloudy.
That all the earth may be refreshed, and may return, being delivered from
thy violence, and that she may hope for the judgment and mercy of him
that made her 2. Esdras 11.46.
There is a marked difference between the canonical books of the Bible and
the Apocryphal writings in this— I have never met with any difficulty in
selecting from four chapters of the old Testament every morning one
verse to be copied for the lesson of the day. In these books of Esdras,
a sentiment worthy to be imprinted upon the memory and the heart is not
always to be found in the compass of four chapters—unless as in the
above passage connected with other verbiage which takes away all the
point of sententiousness—
- Miss Susan Tufts
- Woodward D
r. Ebenezer
I thought myself all day yesterday wholly relieved from the grippe upon
my throat—but after going to bed last night, a return in mitigated form
of the threatened visit from quinsy—disturbed though it did not entirely
destroy my repose— I had sleep but not quiet— Once in the middle of the
Night, my wife rose from
bed to give me a second cup of warm balm tea, and I
dined rise for the day till the entry Clock
struck six— The hoarseness had again very much subsided and the sore
throat wholly disappeared— My regular course of occupation is broken up,
and idleness is the doom of my remaining days by the refusal of my hands
to perform the task of recording my daily thoughts and deeds— We had a
visit from Miss Susan Tufts of
Weymouth this afternoon, and I had a professional visit from Dr
Woodward— He prescribed for me a warm foot bath before
going to bed this evening—and a tea spoonful of the syrup of Tolu, to be
repeated in the course of the Night— He directed me also to wash my legs
every morning with a mixture of New-England rum and water— Among my
symptoms of decay, is a constant heat and irritation in the outer side
of my legs below the calf which I have suffered for the last eighteen
months with a discolouring of the parts and feverish heat portending
ulceration, and a swelling round the ancles at night whenever I walked
in the course of the day. The swelling and the heat generally subsiding
in the course of the Night Throughout last winter they were washed with
milk and water every night before going to bed, but as the Summer came
on the complaint subsided and the fomentation was omitted— With the
reapproach of cold weather the complaint has now returned and I am to
resort to rum instead of milk to mingle with water for the wash— I
received a Letter from Georgiana
Cutter of Quincy Illinois 16. October 1846. asking for an
answer and a piece of poetry— Mr Charles Sumner declines
standing as a candidate for Congress in competition with Robert C. Winthrop—
