Ellen Sewall writes to her aunt Prudence Ward on 29 September:
He gave us a very interesting account of his jaunt to the White Mountains—what a delightful time they must have has—should not you have liked to have gone? Georgie thought “Henry” (as he persisted in calling him) a most entertaining gentleman, for he had innumerable stories of wild animals to tell him which amused him very much.
Her brother Edward adds to the same letter:
