And everybody came, principally owing to the "Harding Davis" part of the name for they all spoke of mother and so very dearly that it made me pretty near weep.

Everybody came from old Dr.Holmes who never goes any place, to Mrs."Jack" Gardner and all the debutantes.

"I was on in that scene." In the evening I went with the Fairchilds to Mrs.
Julia Ward Howe's to meet the S----s but made a point not to as he was talking like a cad when I heard him and Mrs.Fairchild and I agreed to be the only people in Boston who had not clasped his hand.

There were only a few people present and Mrs.Howe recited the Battle Hymn of the Republic, which I thought very characteristic of the city.

To-day I posed again and Cumnock took me over Cambridge and into all of the Clubs where I met some very nice boys and felt very old.