Record Data
Source citation
Brown, Harry James and Frederick D. Williams, eds. The Diary of James A. Garfield. Vol. 1. East Lansing: Michigan State University Press, 1967, p. 290.
Type
Diary
Date Certainty
Exact
Transcriber
Patrick Sheahan
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Transcription
The following text is presented here in complete form, as it originally appeared in print. Spelling and other typographical errors have been preserved as in the original.
TUESDAY, 6. Succeeded fairly on the character of Moses, though not at all up to the ideal I have formed of his character. Classes doing well today. Making some arrangements for the closing exercises Oct. 30. My Literature class is doing finely – they are learning to think and I can see a manifest tendency toward metaphysics, which always denotes a good degree of cultivation. I forgot to mention that a colored man was here last evening on his way to freedom. I was suspicious at first that he was not a genuine fugitive from Slavery but when I became convinced that he was, Bro. Everest and I each gave him a mite and sent him on. I told him in parting to trust God and his muscle. His name is Williams and he is from near Midway, Ky.