Some of the topics this month:
William Prescott, Jr., a prominent lawyer who had taken Gallison into his office after the War of 1812 ended. A Federalist, Prescott was one of the delegates to the Hartford Convention.
Starting on page 62, William Ellery Channing’s view of Holy Communion, of which he (Channing) was a great believer. Gallison was less able to see the point and recorded his doubts several times throughout the journals.
A literary club formed to support the North American Review and Hale’s newspaper
Reminiscences concerning Major André—the spy captured at West Point during the Revolutionary War—as well as John Jay— Supreme Court justice, diplomat, and co-author of The Federalist Papers.