TranscriptTook off on schedule, 8.20 a.m. Arrived Newark ditto; met by limousine for ride to Princeton. Suite at Nassau Inn not ready; had to wait two hours, till 3.15. Lunch in Greenhouse Café ($24.03) then walked about for a while. Suite 324.
Dinner with ten academics, hosted by Jim McPherson in nearby restaurant. Walked from there to large lecture hall, filled including balcony. Talk ("Novelist As Historian") went well, as did following Q.&A. period. Held up later by autograph seekers, etc. Got away by 10.30. Bad night: construction noise, faulty airconditioning. |