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After lecture, I attended a splendid party at Mr. Nathan 

 Appleton's. The drawing-rooms were magnificent, with 

 princely furniture and appendages. The Scotch lady, Mrs. 

 Inglis, with her daughter, was there. One of the daughters 

 was taken sick at the Tontine in New Haven, and we, be 

 ing informed of it by Dr. Lieber, bestowed some attention 

 upon them, for which they were very grateful.* They con 

 duct a female academy in Boston. 



March 20, Friday. Made many calls in the morning, 

 arranged for the next lecture at the Temple, and dined at 

 home. At three quarters after six o'clock p. M., I went with 

 Mr. Josiah Quincy, Jr., and a gentleman of the name of 

 Loring, to Cambridge, in a close carriage. The meeting 

 at President Quincy's was that of a regular Friday Even 

 ing Club, instituted during the last year. Most of the 

 College gentlemen were present, and many others. I was 

 treated with great kindness and attention. Mrs. and Miss 

 Quincy appeared before the meeting was over, and I had 

 a brief but pleasant interview with them. We returned to 

 Boston in the same carriage that brought us over. Pres 

 ident Quincy and lady hold Oliver Wolcott, Esq., of Con 

 necticut, in high admiration. They knew him when in the 

 Government of the United States at Philadelphia. Mr. 

 Josiah Quincy, Jr., kindly took me to Cambridge, and 

 attended me in the same way back to Boston 



March 22. In the evening I had not indeed quite 

 recovered my full physical energy, but I believe that my 

 audience gained by it, for I was more calm and deliberate 

 in my manner ; and this lecture, chiefly on the early or 

 ganic remains, appeared to me to excite more attention 

 than any preceding one. I took tea at Judge Davis's. At 

 his family table (I believe a sister presides, as he is a 

 widower) everything was rational and agreeable. He is a 

 very estimable and respectable man, cordial in a high de 

 gree, and full of the love of science and of good learning. 

 * One of these ladies married Don Calderon de La Barca. F. 



