2 January 1865 – 8 January 1865

Proofs of my book, Fifty Modern Poems^ from Bell and Daldy.

' The Dial ' American Maga- zine. I don't like mock- Emersonianism. Balzac's Ursula ; is he an honest writer .? Droll correspondence with E. B. Jones, who wrote me a letter from a sham ' Mary Jane,' admirer of my poetry, enclosing her photograph. I replied to Mary Jane, and enclosed it to the care of E. B. J. His rejoinder. Carlyle's Fredk., Vol. IV. — Swedenborg.