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agreeable host, and gave us American wines, sherry and
champagne. The latter is especially good; it is made
from the Catawba grape at Cincinnati. Then we dined at
the home of a Swedenborgian, a professor; and further,
I have been at a "bee!" And if you would know what
this creature is in society here, then behold! If
a family is reduced to poverty by fire or sickness,
and the children are in want of clothes or anything
else, a number of the ladies of the neighborhood who
are in good circumstances immediately get together at
some place and sew for them. Such a sewing assembly
is called a bee! And now there was a bee at the
house of Mrs. Sparks, the wife of the president of
the university, to sew for a family who had lost all
their clothing through fire, and I was invited to be
present at it. The bee-hive was fine, busy, and gay,
and had, if not honey, remarkably good milk and cake
to offer the working bees, among whom I took my place,
but not to do very much.
December 25. I had almost forgotten--and that I must
not do--to tell you of a visit I had this evening from
the Quaker poet, Whittier, one of the purest and most
gifted of the poetical minds of the Northern States,
glowing for freedom, truth, and justice, championing
them in his songs,
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