I have invited Ralph Waldo Emerson by letter and all three have promised to come.

In the evening with Mr.Jackson's son James, Ellen Blackwell and I went to see Hamlet.

In spite of my Quaker training, I find I enjoy all these worldly amusements intensely.
Returning to Worcester, I attended the Anti-Slavery Bazaar.

I suppose there were many beautiful things exhibited, but I was so absorbed in the conversation of Mr.Higginson, Samuel May, Jr., Sarah Earle, cousin Seth Rogers and Stephen and Abby Foster, that I really forgot to take a survey of the tables.

The next day Charles F.Hovey drove with me out to the home of the Fosters where we had a pleasant call.[20] [Autograph: Theodore Parker] Miss Anthony visited a baby show but she considered it "a sad exhibition, unless it may be the crude and rude beginning of arousing an interest in the laws which govern the production of strong, healthy, beautiful children." She heard Mr.Higginson preach every Sunday, and of one sermon on the "Secret Springs of True Greatness" she writes home: The minister read from the Book of Esdras in the Apocrypha.