I was struck with the extreme propriety with which everything was conducted, and with the universal harmony and good — will that prevailed among the numerous friends of the cause, who had collected from all parts of the old Commonwealth, on this interesting occasion. Many of the most distinguished citizens were purchasers, and appeared highly gratified, though not connected with
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daughter, Mrs. Gibbons, says: ‘You cannot think how glad we were to see the dear old man. He spent a night with me, to my great contentment, and that of my wife; and to the no small edification of our little boy, to whom breeches and buckles were a great curiosity.
My Irish gardener looked at them with reverence; having probably seen nothing so aristocratic, since he left the old country.
I love those relics of past time.
The Quakers were not so much out, when they censured their members for turning sans culottes. Think of Isaac T. Hopper in a pair of pantaloons strapped under his feet!
There is heresy in the very idea.
But, costume apart, we were as glad to see Father Hopper, as if he had been our real father in the flesh.
I hope he had a right good time.
If he had not, I am sure it was not for want of being made much of. I trust his visits to Boston will grow into one of our domestic institutions.’
In the old gentleman's account of his visit to the Fair, he says:
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