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the following day I shall accompany him to his house
in the Highlands on the Hudson, where I can make the
acquaintance of his wife at my leisure and plan my
future traveling movements.
October 5. Through the whole day I have had nothing
to do but to receive visits; to sit or stand in a
grand parlor and merely turn from one to another,
receiving the salutations and shaking hands, sometimes
with half a dozen new acquaintances at once–gentlemen
of all professions and all nations, ladies who invite
me to their house and home, and who wish that I would
go immediately. Besides, I have received a number of
letters, which I could merely break open, requests for
autographs, and so on. I have shaken hands with from
seventy to eighty persons to-day, while I was unable
to receive the visits of many others. Of the names I
remember scarcely any, but the greater number of the
people whom I have seen please me from their cordial,
frank manners, and I am grateful to them for their
extreme friendliness toward me; it feels so warm
and hospitable. Nevertheless, I was very glad to
be relieved for a few hours from my friends, and to
drive out with Mr. Downing to the beautiful Greenwood,
the large and new cemetery of New York, a young Père
la Chaise, but on a more gigantic scale as to
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