A private diary
By: kept by Francis Ellingwood Abbot,
Series: Collections of the Harvard University Archives
Published: 1855
Language: eng
Number of pages: 250
Subjects: Diaries; Philosophers; Harvard College (1780- ). Class of 1855
Description: This diary covers some of the years of Abbot's graduate study at Harvard.
Notes: Selected pages have been digitized and are available online.

Francis Ellingwood Abbot (1836-1903), was a Unitarian minister and a radical religious philosopher. Abbot founded the Free Religious Association (1867), was editor of the weekly publication The Index (1870-1880), and organizer and President of the National Liberal League. He earned an A.B. at Harvard University in 1855 and a Ph.D and A.M. in 1881. Abbot taught philosophy briefly at Harvard University in 1887.