Feeling pretty fair to-day. Drove down yesterday four miles to "Billy Thompson's," on the Delaware river edge, to a nice dinner, baked shad & champagne galore—jolly company—enjoy'd all with moderation—No, the Mr Smith, my liberal & faithful Quaker friend, is R Pearsall Smith (glass manufacturer & man of wealth) father of Mrs. Costelloe, my staunchest living woman friend—the Librarian Logan Smith, (now dead) was his brother—Did you see the N. Y. Eve. Sun of 15th Ap[ril]?
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