...g final discourse with Worcester. In New York Sumner made a few calls, among them one on Joshua Leavitt, at the office of the Independent, where he met for the first time Rev. J. P. Thompson. John Bigelow came to dine with him; but John Van Buren, who was invited, was unable to accept. From his lodgings at Delmonico's he wrote on the 26th, Thanksgiving Day, letters to relatives and friends, full of...