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Maria Mitchell: Life, Letters, and Journals

CHAPTER III
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The Unitarian clergymen and the divinity students seemed to have turned out.
"Most of the two thousand listeners followed with the book, and when the last word was uttered on the French page, over turned the two thousand leaves, sounding like a shower of rain.

The applause was never very great; it is said that Rachel feels this as a Boston peculiarity, but she ought also to feel the compliment of so large an audience in a city where foreigners are so few and the population so small compared to that of New York.
"Nov.

14, 1855.

Last night I heard Emerson give a lecture.

I pity the reporter who attempts to give it to the world.


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