South Dakota, 1889

File — Box: 4, Volume: 8

Identifier: II

Staff Only

Scope and Contents

This diary was kept in conjunction with Diary 7. Some entries refer to Professor Orcott and going to the college farm for specimens, indicating Douglass was at South Dakota Agricultural College at the time he kept this journal. He included poetry, philosophy, science, and nature study entries in the journal. The last entry is 30 June 1889.

25 March--"I have for some time wanted a kind of a Journal not to write in every day but to write the results of observation--things too important to be trusted to memory--scientific investigations, or any thing that I wish to write and preserve. essays, sketches, poems, &c."
"The Microscope--There is a pleasure in the study of nature if we only study it aright; and yet how few there are that have a real deep, enthusiastic interest in it. . . .
"It seems to me that the wonders and beauties have been increased 10 fold by the Micro. There are thousands of things all around us revealed by its transforming power."

Dates

1889

Language of Materials

From the Collection: Collection materials are in English.

Conditions Governing Access

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