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far as Syracuse, for the purpose of visiting A.
Orvis + family, where I left her on the 5th to find
her way back when sh should complete her
visit + [?] N.Y. on the morning of the [20th?]
I made my headquearters at [Ward H. + Niobe?]
[Blackler's?] ([Hoger's?] sister) until, by pre-rrangement
they were obliged to shut up house for the summer
+ retreat to the country, where I took lodgings
with Cousin Emma, except spending two nights
+ a day on Staten Island with Edward & Agatha
Mayer + Gertrude Newman + on the 17th
took the Fall River boat back for Newport - Spent about
a week thereabouts - mostly at Thos. R. Hazard's - 6
miles out of town, went by stage to Fall River,
thence by rail to Boston, spent one day there
+ then home. I too found a melancholy
pleasure in looking at the old land marks
+ [tracing?] the footpaths once so familir to a
long line of my ancestors - all now the denisons
of another +, I trust, better city. The old house
at the point has three of the rooms below un-
changed except the painting + windows, [were?]
modernised, the other lower rooms, which I

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had the privilege of going over, are somewhat
altered + enlarged. In my enumeration I did not
include the front hall, which is also the same
as when I first saw it at least fifty years ago.
The same old Ostrich Egg hangs in the Beaufet
just as it did then. On getting on the stage
at Portsmouth for Fall River I found myself
seated between two genteel looking [col?]
young men, one of whom I found to be
Jos [Joseph] Turpin - the little boy who, with his
sister was for some years somewhat under my
care + boarded + went to school at brother Nathan's.
Thou will recollect them; their father was the
Freedman of Wm Turpin a rich man in N.Y.
by whom he -Jos' father - became possessor of a
considerable property. I found him very intelligent
+ well informed, had married + lost his wife
+ was now a resident of Liberia where he was
a merchant trading to New York.

Among the many interesting objects to be seen in
Boston, no other was so striking to me as the resi
dence of Wendell Phillips - an [unpretending, inferior
looking house - though doubtless quite comfortable, standing

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