in phraseology, was particularly beautiful.
Her appearance denotes feeble health, and I am told that she works too hard, writing much for the periodicals to earn a subsistence . . . . January 30.—. . . . The beginning of the evening I spent at Thierry's. There was no company, and I had a great deal of pleasant talk with him about his occupations, and his projected history of the Merovingians; a prodigious work for one broken down with such calamities as he is.
Recits des Temps Merovingiens, 1840; a charming work, made directly from the early chronicles. Afterwards I went to Guizot's, and found a plenty of deputies, the Greek Ambassador, in his costume, and the Baron de Barante, with his beautiful wife, now spending the winter in Paris, on leave of absence from St. Petersburg, where he is French Ambassador.
See Vol.
I. p. 256. He is much altered since I knew him before; but still looks well, and talks as becomes the author of the History of the Dukes of Burgundy.
As I arrived lat
Belgium, Germany, I. 402-456; winter in Dresden, 456-492; Berlin, Bohemia, 493-511. 1836-37. Austria, Bavaria, Switzerland, Italy, II. 1-58, winter in Rome, 58-86. 1837-38. Italy, Tyrol, Bavaria, Heidelberg, 87-101; winter in Paris, 102-143; London and Scotland, 144-183; return to America, 183, 184. 1838-56.
Life in Boston, 184-311; summers at Woods' Hole, 187, 208-210; journeys, 221. 222; Geneseo, 225; journeys, 226-228; Manchester, Mass., 239, 268; journeys and Lake George, 277, 281, 289. 1840-49. History of Spanish Literature, 243-262. 1850.
Visit to Washington, 263, 264. 1852-67.
Connection with Boston Public Library, 299-320. 1856-57. Third visit to Europe, 321-400; London, Brussels, Dresden, Berlin, Vienna, Milan, Florence, 311-315, 321-311; winter in Home, 315, 316, 341-349; Naples, Florence, Turin, Paris, London, 317, 349-404. 1857-70.
In Boston, 404-498. 1859-64. Life of Prescott, 436-440, 444, 449-456. 1861-65.
Civil war, 433-435, 440-444, 446-449, 458-461. 1866-70.
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