Extracts from Adam's diary

Extracts from Adam's Diary is a collection of the author's thoughts and experiences, spanning his life from 1835 to 1870. In these pages, readers will find Twain's early thoughts on religion and slavery, his reflections on the Civil War, and his observations of people from all walks of life. In this letter to his wife Livy from October 1868, Twain has just learned that he has been elected a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences: "I have had a most characteristic dream this morning. I am going to school again after being absent for three years. "This is a set of extracts from Adam's diary kept during the last year of his life when he was in the employment of Dr. John Harvey Kellogg at Battle Creek Sanitarium. It is an interesting commentary on the food fad of the 1880s and tells you what they ate at breakfast, lunch, and dinner for a whole month.