But after a time new friendships were formed and new interests awakened and New York began to be called home.

When the proprietors of the St.Nicholas opened the Windsor Hotel uptown, we took up our residence there and up to the year 1887 that was our New York home.

Mr.Hawk, the proprietor, became one of our valued friends and his nephew and namesake still remains so.
Among the educative influences from which I derived great advantage in New York, none ranks higher than the Nineteenth Century Club organized by Mr.and Mrs.Courtlandt Palmer.

The club met at their house once a month for the discussion of various topics and soon attracted many able men and women.

It was to Madame Botta I owed my election to membership--a remarkable woman, wife of Professor Botta, whose drawing-room became more of a salon than any in the city, if indeed it were not the only one resembling a salon at that time.