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Monday, October 8. I must tell you that among my
invitations is one to a wedding in the neighborhood. I
shall gladly accept it. I like brides and weddings.
In my next letter I shall speak of my future plans
and itinerary: at present they are not definitely
fixed, further than that I wish to spend the Winter
in Boston, the American Athens, and there, as far as I
can, acquire a knowledge of the intellectual movements
in the New World. In the first place, it will be a
good thing for me to spend about three weeks with the
Downings, and to make excursions with them to some of
the friends on the Hudson--"some of the best people in
the country," as they say. Among these is Washington
Irving, who, together with Fennimore Cooper, was
the first to make us in Sweden somewhat at home in
America. Miss [Catherine] Sedgwick is expected here
in a few days. I shall be glad to see her and thank
her for the pleasure we have received from her Redwood
and Hope Leslie. If I could only have a little time to
myself! My difficulty is to be able to receive all the
kind people hastening to me from far and near, from
different states and towns. But although I can but
imperfectly respond to their good will, I am not the
less grateful for it; and I shall never forget how,
on the very first day of my arrival in New York, more
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