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enjoyment of young society.
A friend of mine used to say that when she saw them clustering round him, in furs and feathered bonnets, listening to his words so attentively, she often thought it would make as fine a picture as William Penn explaining his treaty to the Indians.
Ellis Gray Loring in a letter to me, says: ‘We greatly enjoyed Friend Hopper's visit.
You cannot conceive how everybody was delighted with him; particularly all our gay young set; James Russell Lowell, William W. Story, and the like.
The old gentleman seemed very happy; receiving from all hands evidence of the true respect in which he is held.’
Mrs. Loring, writing to his son John, says: ‘We have had a most delightful visit from your father.
Our respect, wonder, and love for him increased daily.
I am sure he must have received some pleasure, he bestowed so much.
We feel his friendship to be a great acquisition.’
Samuel J. May wrote to me: ‘I cannot tell you how much I was charmed by my interview with Friend Hopper.
To me, it was worth more than all the Fair beside.
Give my most affectionate respects to him. He very kindly invited me to make his house my home when I next come to New-York; and I am impatient for the time to arrive, that I may accept his invitation.’
Edmund Quincy, writing to Friend Hopper's
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