Those who are very difficult in choosing wives seem as if they would take none of Nature's readymade works

Editor's note: the following entries were written between October 1836 and July 1837; no specific date is written in the journal.

In this dismal chamber FAME was won. (Salem, Union Street.)

Those who are very difficult in choosing wives seem as if they would take none of Nature's readymade works, but want a woman manufactured particularly to their order.