Diary belonging to Samuel Dana Horton
Published: 1859
Language: eng
Subjects: Admission; Students; Description and travel; Harvard University
Description: Items of particular interest include an account of Horton’s visit to Cambridge in 1860 for his entrance examination, a letter from Robert Todd Lincoln, Chicago, to Lydiard Horton, Bloomington, Ill, May 1, 1907, which is stapled to the front cover of the second volume, and Horton’s entry describing the celebration upon the passage of the Emancipation Proclamation on January 1, 1863.
Notes: Previously classified as HUC 860.39 and HUD 863.39.

Samuel Dana Horton received his Harvard AB in 1864.
Table of contents: title: Volume 1, April 15 – July 31, 1859; title: Volume 2, June 9-July 13, 1860 (a letter from Robert Todd Lincoln, Chicago, to Lydiard Horton, Bloomington, Ill, May 1, 1907, is stapled to the front cover); title: Volume 3, January - July 1863 (includes an entry for July 12, 1862, tipped-in at the back of the volume)