It was our choice to go to the church, but we had a kind of reception at the boarding-house.

The presents were all arranged, and among them none gave more pleasure than the modest tributes of our fellow-boarders,--for there was not one, I believe, who did not send something.

The landlady would insist on making an elegant bride-cake, with her own hands; to which Master Benjamin Franklin wished to add certain embellishments out of his private funds,--namely, a Cupid in a mouse-trap, done in white sugar, and two miniature flags with the stars and stripes, which had a very pleasing effect, I assure you.

The landlady's daughter sent a richly bound copy of Tupper's Poems.

On a blank leaf was the following, written in a very delicate and careful hand:- Presented to.