LECTURES IN BOSTOX. 347 



Dwight's in the family, and at Professor Ticknor's. Showed 

 the meteoric stones, and stated the case of the " American 

 Journal." Professor Ticknor says, that I speak loud enough, 

 but drop my voice near the end of a sentence and some 

 words are lost. I attended a great Government party at 

 Lieut. - Governor Armstrong's, hundreds of gentlemen 

 without one lady. At nine o'clock, I retired to read and 

 write at home. Governor Armstrong, formerly a bookseller, 

 is a man of noble person and mien, and courteous manners. 

 I am well, and all goes well charmingly indeed, cor- 

 diality and interest and numbers far beyond my expecta- 

 tions. Robert * is well and does exceedingly well ; he is 

 much admired in his station, and is regarded by the audi- 

 ence as a sub-professor ! 



March llth, Wednesday Evening. Room very full, seats 

 all filled. 'I should think there were from eight hundred 

 to nine hundred people, the day-course notwithstanding. 

 Great interest was manifested by the most profound atten- 

 tion, and I am assured that there was great satisfaction. 

 In a letter of March 13, 1835, to Mrs. Silliman, I say: 

 " Many people have been denied evening tickets, the 

 seats being entirely occupied ; and we are not willing to 

 admit a crowd to annoy each other in the alleys and spaces. 

 In consequence the day-course grows, but I cannot tell to 

 what extent." " In addition to the remittance of SI 022.50, 

 already made to you, there is enough more paid in to make 

 $2000 ; the expenses will be, all told, about $500, and $1500 

 will remain as my reward. Besides the money, my success 

 here is really a triumph. The audience is not surpassed 

 in numbers and intelligence by the assemblies at the Royal 

 Institution in London. The interest is already intense, 

 and the moral influence is said to be of the happiest kind. 

 Clergymen, both Unitarian and Orthodox, thank me warmly 

 for the manner in which they say that delicate points are 

 treated. They tell me that the success of the lectures is 

 * His colored servant. F. 



