Peter Mark Roget
(1779 – 1869)
1852
Thurs April 29 Baked twice in the brick oven.
Mince pies, cake bread &c Mr & Mrs
Kinsley with their family made quite a long
call They are very pleasant. After they left went
to Mr Torreys Augustus, wife & her sister Augusta
& Rachel there, brought home some rose slips
The aroma of baking filled the Ames house today as Evelina produced pies, cakes, bread and more. Or should we say that the smell, or the scent, or the fragrance, or the odor of baking bread was apparent to anyone who stepped into the house? Roget’s Thesaurus would offer us any one of those synonyms for the word aroma.
The first edition of Roget’s Thesaurus was published on this date in 1852. Peter Mark Roget, a British physician, inventor and theologian, began to compile synonyms as a young man as one way of combatting the depression that plagued him for much of his life. Beginning the work in 1805, not long after he had completed his medical studies, he spent nearly fifty years bringing the publication to fruition. The first edition had approximately 15,000 words; it has been continually expanded, updated regularly ever since.
The Kinsleys of Canton came to visit in the afternoon and, no doubt, they could smell the fresh baked bread. Lyman Kinsley was an iron trader who had many dealings with the Ames family; within the decade, his business would be owned by the Ameses and overseen by Frank Morton Ames. That was in the future, however. On this day, he, his wife, Louisa, daughter Lucy and younger sons, perhaps, all came for “quite a long call.” Evelina enjoyed their company, but after they left she bounced right out of the house to go into the village to visit relatives and bring home rose slips. The garden!
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