[Boston—Monday, 7 October 1867]
Monday. Sheridan came to town. My two up-stairs servants longed to be on the wing so I thought I would quietly propose we should lunch down town as Mr & Miss Godwin must leave in the afternoon. We met Mr & Mrs Marcus Spring down town. She was the woman who went to give solace to John Brown in prison. Mr & Mrs Spring have been theorists and enterprizers all their life long; their names were very familiar to me & I was glad to meet them.
After they had gone & Sheridan, who was received with immense and sincere enthousiasm, we went to get lunch. Lo! Every corner was filled so we trotted quietly home again where I improvised a delightful lunch though I say it in spite of my broken reeds.
We said good-bye to the Godwins who were really grateful for the good time they had and then I looked out of the window for mother & Sarah. We had tea prepared but they did not appear until nearly ten o’clock. They had stopped to see all the processions there were like to be.
