Page:Letter from Anne Warren Weston to Deborah Weston (1842).pdf/1

 Caroline was invited to be in town &amp; pas the night Wednesday. We called then at the Lisings and asked there &amp; then the C. Place folks. We saw at the Lisings the beautiful Vandyke given to the family(?) by J.L. Goze. It is really a lovely thing. Mrs Jonathan Phillips says it ought not to be sold a cent under $1000. Mis Shattink spent the afternoon with us &amp; in the evening I went to hear lecture at Belknap St. The house was a shamefully thin one as there is a Revival going on among the col's folks. W. gave a good, useful lecture. Wednesday morning I called at C. Place. In the afternoon our party assembled. In addition to Maria, Mary, Caroline, Mr &amp; Mrs Lising, were Harvey, a Mr &amp; Mrs Spannier(?) half way transcendental Abolitionists &amp; Mary Robbins. We had a cosy time enough. Rogers who was in town is asked but he was at an meeting. , &amp; his dinner was the absorbing subject. Dickens is surprised at finding every thing so like England, society &amp; all. The folks he goes among are the very folks who are imitating English society. He has been invited to 40 different houses &amp; every instance of their time is occupied when not in company with trying to answer notes &amp; letters.

Caroline staid here all night &amp; we had a cosy time. Thursday morning was a pouring rain. Nevertheless, she left for Roxbury &amp; we had a quiet still day here nobody in till late in the afternoon when Bradburn &amp; Rogers called. They were very agreeable &amp; Henrietta asked them here to tea tonight. Rogers will certainly come &amp; Bradburn if he is in town. I got Promersi(?) Shori safe &amp; will send Abby some of my Italian exercises the very minute I can, but as it is in a book, I must write the exercise first myself, but I will have it continually on my mind. I am very busy all the time for Henrietta is like Mrs Isaiah Thayer, she loves to be where there is a good deal going on, &amp; we lark about as you will see considerably. I met yesterday, no the day before