In about six months I saw in the papers that Dora D'Istria was taking a long trip to America to meet Mrs.Oliver, Edison, Longfellow, and myself! I called on her later at a seashore hotel near Boston.

She had just finished her lunch, and said she had been enjoying for the first time boiled corn on the cob.

She was sitting on the piazza, rather shabbily dressed, her skirt decidedly travel-stained.

Traces of the butter used on the corn were visible about her mouth and she was smoking a large and very strong cigar, a sight not so common at that time in this country.

A rocking chair was to her a delightful novelty and she had already bought six large rocking chairs of wickerwork.