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which were pronounced by the professor in charge ‘a careful chronicle of a vegetation which for this immediate region has largely disappeared forever.’
His correspondence with and concerning John Brown was given to the Boston Public Library; also collections of Margaret Fuller Ossoli's and Emily Dickinson's letters.
December 1st he recorded, ‘My office of Military and Naval Historian expired, much to my satisfaction, after seven years and four months.’
An extension of a year's time without compensation was however granted at Colonel Higginson's request, and the ‘History’ was satisfactorily completed.
These fragments from the diary after his recovery show the continued activity:—
This was a meeting at Faneuil Hall where envoys from the Boer Republic presented their side of the South African trouble with England.
From a newspaper
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