It is warm, cloudy, and looks like a tempest; we are too tired for much effort.
"Mrs.Fogg, of Nashville, took us to call on the widow of President Polk.

We found her at home, though apparently just ready for a walk.

She is still in mourning, and tells me that she has not travelled fifty miles from home in the last eight years.
"She spoke to me of Governor Briggs (of Massachusetts), an old friend; of Professor Hare; and said that among her cards, on her return from a journey some years ago, she found Charles Sumner's; and forgetting at the moment who he was, she asked the servant who he was.

'The Abolitionist Senator from Massachusetts--I asked him in,' was the reply.
"Mrs.Polk talks readily, is handsome, elegant in figure, and shows at once that she is well read.

She told me that she reads all the newspaper reports of the progress of science.