transmittendum

Updated: August 1, 2026

As a Harvard undergraduate I roomed for a time in Hollis 8, a room occupied in turn by William H. Prescott and James Schouler, and perhaps I may attribute to some contagion caught as a transmittendum in that apartment, an itch for writing history which has brought some trouble to me and to the rather limited circle of readers whom I have reached.

James Kendall Hosmer - The Last Leaf : Observations, during Seventy-Five Years, of Men and Events in America and Europe