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and combating their enemies in the social life of
the New World; one of those Puritans who will not
bend to or endure injustice in any form. He has a
pleasing exterior; his figure is slender and tall;
he has a beautiful head with refined features, black
eyes full of fire, dark complexion, a fine smile,
and a lively but nervous manner. Both soul and spirit
have overstrained the nervous chords and affected the
body. He belongs to those natures who would advance
with firmness and joy to martyrdom in a good cause,
and yet who are never comfortable in society, and
look occasionally as though they would like to run
out of the door. I feel that I should enjoy myself
with Whittier, and could make him feel at ease with
me. I know from my own experience what this nervous
bashfulness, caused by the over-exertion of the
brain, means, and how persons suffering therefrom
should be treated.--I have, also, had a little botanic
conversation with the distinguished professor of
botany here, Asa Gray, who came and presented me
with a bouquet of fragrant violets. He gave me also
out of his herbarium some specimens of the American
Linnéa borealis, which resembles our Swedish, but
is considerably smaller and has somewhat different
leaves. I had expected to botanize a great deal in
this country, but God knows how it is!
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