[Boston—Tuesday, 15 January 1867]
Tuesday again down town early to finish shopping; in the afternoon Mr Whittier & Lucy Larcom called together & passed nearly two hours. He told us of finding the money short to support the teacher from Amesbury among the Freedmen, so he went to the carriage makers and proposed that one should give wheels & one the body of the carriage, one the trappings & one some other part dividing one carriage among 20 workmen & when all was put together there was a carriage worth 200 dollars which was the sum required. He looks older than I have seen him but is in good healthy spirit. He enjoys the town tho’ he does get many a head ache out of it. Speaking of his writings being put into elegant bindings he said, “it doesn’t do for me, I never wrote for the select few, some how.” He had just been with Lucy to see Mrs Browning’s bust which they both enjoy deeply.
He agrees with us in liking Kate Field.
