Rose’s first diary offers detailed entries for every day in which she relates her family life, her social life, and her education at home, consisting of readings in history and literature, sewing, and geometry and music lessons with a tutor. Rose also records her attendance to prayer meetings, exhibitions, and public lectures, as well as her appreciation of her father’s church sermons. She professes her interest in literary criticism and her inclination to write. While living in New Haven, she takes occasional trips to Northampton and Boston.Great care in handling recommended as the binding is damaged; 192 pages