Title: Diary belonging to Samuel Dana Horton
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.
Subjects: Admission, Students, Description and travel, Harvard University
Places: Cambridge (Mass.)