234 



AMERICAN JOURNEY. 



[Chap. V. 



what refreshed by Haydn's 3rd [Mass], after which they sung a 

 special Te Deum in honour of the New Year. After service, the 

 coloured people set to shaking hands and kissing each other 

 very heartily. I went to a priest in the choir to get the name 

 of a hymn they sung, which sounded like 6 Foresters, sound 

 the cheerful horn.' It was ' Veni, Sancte Spiritus.' I like the 

 cheerfulness of the Catholic worship. In my melancholy frame 

 of mind and dreary life it is congenial : and the Puritanical 

 forms are repugnant. 



" One evening the professor asked me to a private exhibi- 

 tion of some experiments of electric light. ... I took up 

 Robert under the shadow of my wing : there were several 

 grandees present. ... I talked before lecture with one of the 

 Charleston representatives, who had been a professor. I 

 wonder whether he would understand my tones of voice, when 

 I spoke of the Southern laws about human property. The 

 conversation was principally on the Maine Law, and how it 

 was observed towards the slaves in the South. . . . [Another 

 day] I was introduced (in the way I like best — as the brother of 

 Mary Carpenter) to a gentleman whose name I did not catch. 

 He was pleased to find that I was your brother, and said that 

 he had had the 4 honour' of receiving more than one letter from 

 you. He invited me to his house, which I gladly accepted, 

 and found afterwards that it was Charles Sumner. He looks 

 old and careworn. It is pleasant to think that one may go to 

 a place where one may open one's lips." Subsequently they 

 became intimate, and Philip found him as kind and agreeable 

 as possible. 



He gave lectures, for which Mr. W. Henry made large 

 drawings. The first was on the Mazatlan Oyster, and the 

 second on the Cuttlefish ; and as his style of lecturing was 

 popular, he was invited to give a course on the Mollusca. 

 When he thus became known, many, including some English 

 friends, invited him to their houses ; but after his hard day's 

 work, he rarely felt in spirits to pay visits in that " city of 

 magnificent distances." "My life," he says, "is tolerably jog- 

 trot, and quite as disagreeable as I expected it would be. 



