January 27, Yesterday there was abundant rain. I spent most of the evening with Ellie and Miss Rosalie at Lewis Rutherfurd’s pleasantly enough.* It was a small tea-drinking. As the sky was cloudy, the planets didn’t “receive” and we postponed our visit to the new observatory. The Columbia College instruments are there and Rutherford works with them very diligently.
* Lewis M. Rutherfurd had built a small observatory at his premises on Second Avenue at Eleventh Street; launching his pioneer work in astronomical photography, he obtained his first photographs of the moon this year.
The Diary of George Templeton Strong, Edited by Allan Nevins and Milton Halsey Thomas
Big party comes off tomorrow evening on these premises. Would ‘twere well over.
The Diary of George Templeton Strong, Edited by Allan Nevins and Milton Halsey Thomas