A highlight of November, 1818’s journal entries was the Boston Coffee House fire. A truly spectacular urban disaster, it gave Gallison great scope for his narrative skills. Newspapers also carried accounts of the fire, which do not differ greatly from his.
Month: January 2019
October, 1818
Here we have some lengthy reports of sermons, of interest to those looking at Unitarian theology.
Gallison also shares glimpses of two famous authors: Hannah Adams (1755-1831), the writer on religious topics who appeared at a dinner, and—indirectly, through Miss Adams’s opinion— Hannah More (1745-1833), the English poet, playwright, and moralist.
In less cheerful news, Gallison reached his thirtieth birthday—still single.