Left
Stockbridge and arrived at home about eight P.M.
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_August 7._--Messrs. Duyckink, Matthews, and Melville called in the
forenoon. Gave them a couple of bottles of Mr. Mansfield's champagne,
and walked down to the lake with them. At twilight Mr. Edwin P. Whipple
and wife called from Lenox.
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_August 19._--Monument Mountain, in the early sunshine; its base
enveloped in mist, parts of which are floating in the sky; so that the
great hill looks really as if it were founded on a cloud. Just emerging
from the mist is seen a yellow field of rye, and above that, forest.
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_August 24._--In the afternoons, this valley in which I dwell seems like
a vast basin filled with golden sunshine, as with wine.
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_August 31._--J.R. Lowell called in the evening. September 1st, he
called with Mrs. Lowell in the forenoon, on their way to Stockbridge or
Lebanon, to meet Miss Bremer.
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_September 2_.--"When I grow up," quoth J----, in illustration of the
might to which he means to attain,--"when I grow up, I shall be _two_
men!"
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