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to Mr. Garrison's happiness.
He was, however, constantly meeting countrymen and friends in Paris, and he was pleased to be recognized and addressed by two of the colored waiters at the American restaurant of the Exposition.
He spent a very agreeable evening with William1 Cullen Bryant, whom he had never before met, and who had been appointed a fellow-delegate with him to the Anti-Slavery Conference.
On the 15th of June he returned to London, accompanied by his daughter and son. He had little time for looking about the city and noting the changes since his last visit in 1846, before he was overwhelmed by letters and notes of invitation, and proffered courtesies from friends in London and in other parts of the kingdom.
After George Thompson, his first call was on John Bright, whom he happened never to have met in his previous visits.
Their interview was delightful for its cordiality and2 informality, seeming rather like the meeting of old friends.
The next day he paid his respects to the Duke and Duchess3 of Argyll, at Argyll Lodge, Kensington, desiring to testify his appreciation of the Duke's unfaltering support of the Northern cause during the civil war, and his grateful remembrance of the friendship and support of the Duchess of Sutherland, whose daughter, a young girl in 1840, now greeted him as the Duchess of Argyll.
Five of her twelve children were brought into the room to see him whose name had ever been an honored one in her mother's house.
A day or two later he received a note from the (Dowager) Duchess of Sutherland herself, who was now a great invalid and sojourning at Chiswick House, one of the seats of the Duke of Devonshire.
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