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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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