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...Sullivan is the editor of If Ever Two Were One: A Private Diary of Love Eternal, a collection of Abbot’s diary entries and love letters from his days at Harvard during the 1850s until his suicide...
...Sullivan equates him with an average Harvard student of today—he stayed out late, was the victim of pranks and carried on a long-distance relationship. Abbot even belonged to a freshman society (“Anonyma”) which occasionally got drunk together...
...Sullivan discovered Abbot’s personal memoirs in the student life section of the Harvard Archives...
...This is one of the best personal journals we have,” Sullivan says. “It even has dialogue, and you normally don’t see that kind of thing.” If Ever Two Were One includes a dialogue Abbot had with Henry David Thoreau, Class of 1837, on the craft of poetry, and other entries suggest he was friends with Ralph Waldo Emerson, Class of 1821, as well as Thoreau...
...When Sullivan took on the task of whittling 1600 pages of diary entries down to a readable size, he was struck by Abbot’s character...