Caroline was invited to be in town & paſs the night Wednesday. We called then at the Lisings and asked there & then the C. Place folks. We saw at the Lisings the beautiful Vandyke given to the family(?) by J.L. Goze. It is really a lovely thing. Mrs Jonathan Phillips says it ought not to be sold a cent under $1000. Miſs Shattink spent the afternoon with us & in the evening I went to hear Wendell lecture at Belknap St. The house was a shamefully thin one as there is a Revival going on among the col's folks. W. gave a good, useful lecture. Wednesday morning I called at C. Place. In the afternoon our party assembled. In addition to Maria, Mary, Caroline, Mr & Mrs Lising, were Harvey, a Mr & Mrs Spannier(?) half way transcendental Abolitionists & Mary Robbins. We had a cosy time enough. Rogers who was in town is asked but he was at an Irish Repeal meeting. Dickens,[1] & his dinner was the absorbing subject. Dickens is surprised at finding every thing so like England, society & all. The folks he goes among are the very folks who are imitating English society. He has been invited to 40 different houses & every instance of their time is occupied when not in company with trying to answer notes & letters.
Caroline staid here all night & we had a cosy time. Thursday morning was a pouring rain. Nevertheless, she left for Roxbury & we had a quiet still day here nobody in till late in the afternoon when Bradburn & Rogers called. They were very agreeable & Henrietta asked them here to tea tonight. Rogers will certainly come & Bradburn if he is in town. I got Promersi(?) Shori safe & will send Abby some of my Italian exercises the very minute I can, but as it is in a book, I must write the exercise first myself, but I will have it continually on my mind. I am very busy all the time for Henrietta is like Mrs Isaiah Thayer, she loves to be where there is a good deal going on, & we lark about as you will see considerably. I met yesterday, no the day before
- ↑ http://charlesdickenspage.com/america.html (Wikisource contributor note)
