From H. W.
Thanksgiving Day, Nov. 26. We sat down to dinner—sixteen Massachusetts people, six ministers’ sons. Mr. Folsom and William Allen, Miss R. and Mr. G. went home; all the rest spent the night, and no one on a sofa. We wondered what was the last [dinner-party] as large that had dined in this old house, but Robert says he never saw such a large party here—Mr. Coffin used to give his dinners in Charleston.