We discussed its excellence at James Buffum's where we all dined.

Monday Mr.Garrison escorted me to Charlestown; we stood on the very spot where Warren fell and mounted the interminable staircase to the top of Bunker Hill Monument.

Then we called on Theodore Parker; found him up three nights of stairs in his library which covers that whole floor of his house; the room is lined with books to the very top--16,000 volumes--and there at a large table in the center of the apartment sat the great man himself.

It really seemed audacious in me to be ushered into such a presence and on such a commonplace errand as to ask him to come to Rochester to speak in a course of lectures I am planning, but he received me with such kindness and simplicity that the awe I felt on entering was soon dissipated.

I then called on Wendell Phillips in his sanctum for the same purpose.