Here is Emerson's laconic journal entry for this day in 1848.
June 25.
Dined at Mr. Field's at Hampstead with Rowland Hill, Mr. Sharpe, and Stanfield, the painter.
{Hampstead High Street looking down the hill towards Haverstock Hill, c 1902; source: thevirtualtourofhampstead.co}
{A romantic depiction of a more rural part of Hampstead in 1848 by
John Everett Millais; source: liverpoolmuseums.org}
{
Rowland Hill, postal reformer, was the originator of the penny post; source: cccmkc.edu}
{
Samuel Sharpe (who seems to have looked a lot like Hill) was an Egyptologist and translator of the Bible; source: wikipedia}
{a representative painting by Stanfield; source: pinturayartistas.com/}
Some sources:Journals Of Ralph Waldo Emerson 1820-1872, with Annotations, edited by Edward Waldo Emerson and Waldo Emerson Forbes; Vol. VII, 1845-1848 (London, Constable & Co.; Boston And New York Houghton Mifflin Company, 1913)
Journals Of Ralph Waldo Emerson 1820-1872, with Annotations, edited by Edward Waldo Emerson and Waldo Emerson Forbes; Vol. VII, 1845-1848, (New York, Houghton Mifflin Company, 1912)
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