David Kimball Diary

Résumé du livre

This diary chronicles Kimball's time as an undergraduate student at Harvard from January through June and September through December of 1890. Daily entries detail his class work; books and newspapers read; social life; trips to the doctor and dentist; weather; and frequent visits to his family home at 48 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston, Massachusetts. Kimball also describes a family trip in June to Niagara Falls, New York, with stops in New York City and the West Point area; and summering in Northeast Harbor, Maine from July through September. He provides detail about recreational activities such as horseback riding, lawn tennis, sailing with umbrellas and sunshades as sails, croquet, whist, tiddledy winks, adverbs and 20 questions; and novels he is reading and adapting into plays. At the end of the diary, Kimball lists names and addresses of several people he has met in Boston with ties to the theater, Christmas presents he has received from friends and family, lists of expenses, and French and Greek vocabulary lists.