Boston. Page— Plymouth Stage— Quincy.
Went into Boston with my Son, and
gave a sitting of 3 hours to Mr Page, whose manner of
painting is different from that of any other painter who has taken my
Portrait— The first sitting, he took the outlines of the face in
Charcoal; and this day he fitted up the space between the lines with a
thick daubing of oil colours— It has no pleasant aspect, but his
finished Portraits of Harding
the Painter, of Mrs Ellis G. Loring and two other Ladies which he
has at his room, give proof of no ordinary talent— While he was at work,
Dr George
Parkman came in, and sat about an hour— He spoke of the
treatment that he had received in England from Daniel O’Connell which he thought
very rude— Upon his introduction to the Irish Orator, he enquired from
what part of the United States he came and being answered from Boston,
reproached him with the burning of the Convent; and the refusal of
indemnity to the sufferers— Dr Parkman told
him that the facts of that event had been misrepresented to him, and
that the truth was very different— There is however no satisfactory
apology for that transaction, as it bears upon the character of the
People and of the time— Pudet haec opprobria non potuisse refelli— It
was near one when I left Mr Page’s room—
Call at the Post-Office, and found that the 1000 copies of my fragment
Speech had been received and delivered to the order of my Son— At his
Office, he was not quite ready to go on the return home.— I went to the
Anti-Slavery Office and Book-store of Isaac
Knapp, who informed me that he had received the copies,
and had authorised Gales and
Seaton to draw upon him at
three months sight for payment— He enquired if the pamphlet was
stereotyped— I said no, but I believed the Press was kept standing— He
said he thought he should soon dispose of these copies and want more— I
said there was no copy-right, and I had given a conditional permission
to the Executive Committee of the American Anti-Slavery Society at
New-York, to publish an edition of it, if they should
610should wish; on condition that they should not
countermand the orders they had given to Gales and Seaton for 1000
copies— After calling at two or three shops to enquire for long cotton
stockings which one of the shopmen told me, had gone so much into disuse
that they would not pay for the expense of keeping them for sale, I
returned to Charles’s Office, and waited for him a half an hour, till
near two O’Clock— The tenant of the Southernmost of my two houses corner
of Boylston Street, came to call upon Charles for repairs.— After
waiting sometime longer I went to the Stable— Charles after waiting for
me sometime, had just gone— I went back again, found he was not at the
Office— Just then the Plymouth stage went by, in which I took a seat,
and at 20 minutes past 3 was landed in front of Mr Daniel
Greenleaf’s yard at the Cross-roads— Charles had got home
about a quarter of an hour sooner.— My family had just sitten down to
dinner. After dinner I called at the Quincy Patriot Office, but Mr Green was
gone to Boston— Stop’d at Mr Gill the bookbinder’s shop,
and was going to Charles’s when I met him coming over. Mrs
Smith, Mary and
Abby spent the Evening at
Mr
Miller’s— A drowsy head-ache drove me to bed at 8
O’Clock.