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dent Tinnay of Harvard University, where I saw his fam- 

 ily ; and then to Judge Story's. Then crossing the coun- 

 try, we drove to Col. J. H. Perkins', and on the way I 

 bought a fine male white-headed eagle for five dollars. 

 On my return I learned that at a meeting of the Nationa^ 

 History Society yesterday a resolution was passed to 

 subscribe for my work. 



"Dr. Bowditch advised me to go to Salem, and with 

 his usual anxiety to promote the welfare of every one^ 

 gave me letters to Messrs. Peabody and Cleveland of that 

 place, requesting them to interest themselves to get the 

 Athenaeum to subscribe for my work. 



"Salem, Mass., September 23, 1836. Rose early this 

 morning, and made preparations to go to Salem ; and at 

 seven o'clock I was in the stage, rolling out of Boston to- 

 wards this beautiful and quiet village. The road might 

 be called semi-aquatic, as it passes over bridges and em- 

 bankments through salt marshes of great extent, bounded 

 by wooded hills towards the sea, and distant ones inland. 

 We stopped a few moments at Shoemaker Town (Lynn), 

 where I paid one dollar for my fare, and reached this 

 place afterwards at half-past ten. 



" I was put down at the Lafayette Hotel, and soon 

 made my way to Mr. Cleveland's office ; he received me 

 kindly, and invited me to dine with him at one o'clock. 

 I took some back numbers of my ' Birds of Anierica ' to 

 Miss Burley, and found her as good, amiable, and gener- 

 ous as ever ; and she at once interested herself to make 

 the object of my visit successful. Called on Dr. Pierson, 

 to whom I had a letter, and met a most congenial spirit, 

 a man of talents and agreeable manners. The Doctor 

 went with me to see several persons likely to be interested 

 in my work ; and I then called alone on a Miss Sitsby, a 

 beautiful ' blue,' seven or eight seasons beyond her teens, 

 and very wealthy. Blues do not knit socks, or put on 



