
These last days have been so crowded with work & play, that there has been no fair chance to do any writing. What with Stedman—who celebrated my
last night in America yesterday by toasting me with mint-juleps at the Hoffman House, & Col. Bob Ingersoll, who has been
giving me all sorts of wrinkles in oratory at his own house & in public (It was a great experience to hear him speak to an audience of
actors at Madison Square Theatre on Tuesday,)—& what with endless other episodes of a friendly & delightful kind, it
is a wonder that I have the heart to say goodbye to America at all. At last the end has come however. I sail by the Crystal this
afternoon at 3 o'clock for Leith, & with this news I must now say once more Goodbye, & be silent again for a while.
Remember me to Mrs. Davies!
