Maria Mitchell In Her Own Words
Oct. 31. {1855} the audience to hear Adrienne was very fine, all the Cambridge professors, the Unitarian clergymen and the divinity students seemed to have turned out. Most of the 2000 listeners were obliged to follow with the book, but it was good to know that they followed the French, for precisely as the last word was uttered on the French page over turned the 2000 leaves sounding like a shower of rain.
People often seem surprised to find that Maria Mitchell travelled off island. In this particularly entry, not only has she travelled off to Cambridge, Massachusetts, she has attended a play surrounded by the clergy, professors, and students of Harvard College and others. Oh to have been a fly on the wall to hear the noise created by 2,000 people turning over the last page of a book at the same time.
JNLF
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