19–25 February 1855

But two good nights in a fortnight : — one at Buffalo ; the second at Hamilton (Ontario), in finding myself in England, as it seemed, with English soft coal fire, my fine warm parlor hung round with Wilkie prints, and with Burrage's (?) print of a champion course at Amesbury ; with English servant, and the hotel full of solid Eng- lishmen talking London politics in the dear is- land tones. Hon. Hugh Cameron complimented me on the Essay on Friendship !